Howard Barker: Politics and Desire
Author : David I Rabey
Publisher : Springer
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 38,83 MB
Release : 1989-05-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1349199109
Author : David I Rabey
Publisher : Springer
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 38,83 MB
Release : 1989-05-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1349199109
Author : David I Rabey
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 23,4 MB
Release : 2015-10-28
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781349199129
Author : Sean Carney
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 355 pages
File Size : 46,28 MB
Release : 2013-01-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1442613971
The Politics and Poetics of Contemporary English Tragedy is a detailed study of the idea of the tragic in the political plays of David Hare, Howard Barker, Edward Bond, Caryl Churchill, Mark Ravenhill, Sarah Kane, and Jez Butterworth. Through an in-depth analysis of over sixty of their works, Sean Carney argues that their dramatic exploration of tragic experience is an integral part of their ongoing politics. This approach allows for a comprehensive rather than selective study of both the politics and poetics of their work. Carney's attention to the tragic enables him to find a common discourse among the canonical English playwrights of an older generation and representatives of the nineties generation, challenging the idea that there is a sharp generational break between these groups. Finally, Carney demonstrates that tragic experience is often denied by the social discourse of Englishness, and that these playwrights make a crucial critical intervention by dramatizing the tragic.
Author : Alireza Fakhrkonandeh
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 151 pages
File Size : 18,92 MB
Release : 2019-11-09
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 3030286991
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 : Erik Paul Weissengruber
Publisher :
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 33,94 MB
Release : 1998
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Author : Karoline Gritzner
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 333 pages
File Size : 22,45 MB
Release : 2016-03-02
Category : Drama
ISBN : 1783192313
Fifteen essays on the style, language and vision of one of Britain’s most influential and controversial playwrights. Focusing on different aspects of what Barker has called the Theatre of Catastrophe, an international range of academics offer illuminating interpretations of his work. Includes analyses of the political, moral and historical aspects of his writing, its poetry and eroticism, its depiction of the figure of the artist, and Barker’s writing in performance. Includes contributions from Elisabeth Angel-Perez, Mary Karen Dahl, Helen Iball, Christine Kiehl, Charles Lamb, Chris Megson, Roger Owen, Dan Rebellato, James Reynolds, Elizabeth Sakellaridou, Andy Smith, Liz Tomlin, Heiner Zimmerman.
Author : David Ian Rabey
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 24,56 MB
Release : 1989
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780312023515
Author : Christopher Wiley
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 285 pages
File Size : 40,98 MB
Release : 2020-06-27
Category : Art
ISBN : 3030392333
Researching and writing about contemporary art and artists present unique challenges for scholars, students, professional critics and creative practitioners alike. This collection of essays from across the arts disciplines—music, literature, dance, theatre and the visual arts—explores the challenges and complexities raised by engaging in researching and writing on living or recently deceased subjects and their output. Different sections explore critical perspectives and case studies in relation to innovative, distinctive or otherwise leading work, as well as offering innovative modes of discourse such as a visual essay and a music composition. Subjects addressed include recent scandals of Canadian literary celebrity, late-career output, the written element of music composition PhDs, and the boundaries between ethnography and hagiography, with case studies ranging from Howard Barker to Adrian Piper to Sylvie Guillem and Misty Copeland.
Author : Mary Luckhurst
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 608 pages
File Size : 31,22 MB
Release : 2008-04-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0470751479
This wide-ranging Companion to Modern British and Irish Drama offers challenging analyses of a range of plays in their political contexts. It explores the cultural, social, economic and institutional agendas that readers need to engage with in order to appreciate modern theatre in all its complexity. An authoritative guide to modern British and Irish drama. Engages with theoretical discourses challenging a canon that has privileged London as well as white English males and realism. Topics covered include: national, regional and fringe theatres; post-colonial stages and multiculturalism; feminist and queer theatres; sex and consumerism; technology and globalisation; representations of war, terrorism, and trauma.
Author : Charles Lamb
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 239 pages
File Size : 36,60 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Dramatists, English
ISBN : 041531531X
First published in 1997 as Howard Barker's theatre of seduction. This second, fully revised, edition includes a new interview with Barker, a revised introduction, an updated bibliography and a full production chronology.