Hedwig Fraunhofer

Biopolitics, Materiality and Meaning in Modern European Drama (eBook, PDF)

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Produktbeschreibung

Arguing that existing modernisation theories have been unnecessarily one-sided, Hedwig Fraunhofer offers a rewriting of modernity that cuts across binary methodologies - nature and culture, mind and matter, epistemology and ontology, critique and affirmative writing, dramatic and postdramatic theatre. She specifically reworks the biopolitical exclusions that mark modern western epistemology, leading up to modernity's totalitarian crisis point.Fraunhofer reveals the performativity of theatre in its double sense - as theatrical production and as the intra-activity of a dynamic system of multiple relations between human and more-than-human actors, energies and affects. In modern theatre, public and private, human and more-than-human, materiality and meaning collapse in a common life.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Edinburgh University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. September 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781474467452
• Artikelnr.: 72430765

Autorenporträt

Hedwig (Hedy) Fraunhofer is Professor of French and German in the Department of World Languages & Cultures at Georgia College (U.S.). Working at the intersection of Comparative Literature, Drama and Theatre Studies, and Philosophy, she has published on the critical theory of the Frankfurt School, poststructuralism, new materialist philosophy, European drama, and the novelist Daniel Kehlmann.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Anxious Flesh
Part I: Copenhagen and Paris, ca. 1889: Economies of Excess
1. Posthumanism and Gender, or The Fall Back into Nature
2. Death and Community, or Metaphors and Materiality
Part II: Munich and Paris, 1918 to 1943: Encounters with Fascism
3. Bare Life, or Becoming-Animal
4. Flies vs. the Fetishisation of Consciousness
5. Artaud and the Plague: A Posthumanist Theatre?
6. Where Does the Body End? Artaud's MaterialSymbolic Theatre
Conclusion
Bibliography