The hurt(ful) body
eBook - ePub

The hurt(ful) body

Performing and beholding pain, 1600–1800

  1. 305 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

The hurt(ful) body

Performing and beholding pain, 1600–1800

About this book

This book offers a cross-disciplinary approach to pain and suffering in the early modern period, based on research in the fields of literary studies, art history, theatre studies, cultural history and the study of emotions. The volume's two-fold approach to the hurt body, defining 'hurt' from the perspectives of both victim and beholder - as well as their combined creation of a gaze - is unique. It establishes a double perspective about the riddle of 'cruel' viewing by tracking the shifting cultural meanings of victims' bodies and confronting them with the values of audiences, religious and popular institutional settings and practices of punishment. It encompasses both the victim's presence as an image or performed event of pain and the conundrum of the look – the transmitted 'pain' experienced by the watching audience.

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Information

Publisher
Manchester University Press
Year
2017
Print ISBN
9781526143587
9781784995164
eBook ISBN
9781526113528
Topic
Media & Performing Arts
Subtopic
Performance Art

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title page
  3. Copyright page
  4. Contents
  5. Figures
  6. List of contributors
  7. Introduction
  8. Part I: Performing bodies
  9. Part II: Beholders
  10. Part III: Institutions
  11. Epilogue
  12. Index

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Yes, you can access The hurt(ful) body by Tomas Macsotay,Cornelis van der Haven,Karel Vanhaesebrouck, Tomas Macsotay, Cornelis van der Haven, Karel Vanhaesebrouck in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Media & Performing Arts & Performance Art. We have over 1.5 million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.