UID:
almafu_9961982578302883
Umfang:
1 online resource (xvii, 268 p. :)
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ill. ;
Ausgabe:
1st ed.
ISBN:
9781501720857
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1501720856
Inhalt:
Why did medieval dramatists weave so many scenes of torture into their plays? Exploring the cultural connections among rhetoric, law, drama, literary creation, and violence, Jody Enders addresses an issue that has long troubled students of the Middle Ages. Theories of rhetoric and law of the time reveal, she points out, that the ideology of torture was a widely accepted means for exploiting such essential elements of the stage and stagecraft as dramatic verisimilitude, pity, fear, and catharsis to fabricate truth. Analyzing the consequences of torture for the history of aesthetics in general and of drama in particular, Enders shows that if the violence embedded in the history of rhetoric is acknowledged, we are better able to understand not only the enduring "theater of cruelty" identified by theorists from Isidore of Seville to Antonin Artaud, but also the continuing modern devotion to the spectacle of pain.
Anmerkung:
Frontmatter --
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Contents --
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Illustrations --
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Preface --
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Abbreviations --
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A Polemical Introduction --
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Chapter 1. The Dramatic Violence of Invention --
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Chapter 2. The Memory of Pain --
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Chapter 3. The Performance of Violence --
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Conclusion: Vicious Cycles --
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Works Cited --
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Index
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Issued also in print.
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In English.
Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 9780801487835
Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 0801487838
Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 9780801433344
Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 0801433347
Sprache:
Englisch
Schlagwort(e):
Electronic books.
DOI:
10.7591/9781501720857
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