Body and Event in Howard Barker's Drama: From Catastrophe to Anastrophe in the Castle and Other Plays (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9783030286989)

This book explores questions of gender, desire, embodiment, and language in Barker's oeuvre. With The Castle as a focal point, the scope extends considerably beyond this play to incorporate analysis and exploration of the Theatre of Catastrophe; questions of gender, subjectivity and desire; God/religion; aesthetics of the self; autonomy-heteronomy; ethics; and the relation between political and libidinal economy, at stake in 20 other plays by Barker (including Rome, The Power of the Dog, The Bite of the Night, Judith, Possibilities, I Saw Myself, Fence in Its Thousandth Year, The Gaoler's Ache for the Nearly Dead, The Brilliance of the Servant, Golgo, among others).

Author: Alireza Fakhrkonandeh
ISBN-10: 3030286983
ISBN-13: 9783030286989
Publisher: Palgrave Pivot
Language: English
Published: 11/19/2019
Pages: 151
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 0.79lbs
Size: 8.27h x 5.83w x 0.44d