Performing Bodies in Pain [electronic resource] : Medieval and Post-Modern Martyrs, Mystics, and Artists /
Carlson, M.author.
This text analyzes the cultural work of spectacular suffering in contemporary discourse and late-medieval France, reading recent dramatizations of torture and performances of self-mutilating conceptual art against late-medieval saint plays.
Based on the author's thesis (doctoral)--City University of New York, 2002.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction -- Feeling torture -- Imagining death -- Enduring ecstasy -- Whipping up community -- Containing chaos -- Conclusion.
This text analyzes the cultural work of spectacular suffering in contemporary discourse and late-medieval France, reading recent dramatizations of torture and performances of self-mutilating conceptual art against late-medieval saint plays.
Great Britain-History.
Europe-History-476-1492.
Theater-History.
Literature-History and criticism.
Literature, Medieval.
Civilization-History.
History of Britain and Ireland.
History of Medieval Europe.
Theatre History.
Literary History.
Medieval Literature.
Cultural History.