HYSTERIA, TRAUMA AND MELANCHOLIA by Christina Wald ( 9780230288614 )

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HYSTERIA, TRAUMA AND MELANCHOLIA
PERFORMATIVE MALADIES IN CONTEMPORARY ANGLOPHONE DRAMA

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ISBN 10:

0230288618

ISBN 13:

9780230288614

Publisher:

PALGRAVE MACMILLAN

Pub. date:

11 October, 2007

Description:

Hysteria, trauma and melancholia are not only powerful tropes in contemporary culture, they are also prominent in the theatre. As the first study in its field, Hysteria, Trauma and Melancholia explores the characteristics and concerns of the Drama of Hysteria, Trauma and Melancholia through in-depth readings of representative plays.

Synopsis:

Hysteria, trauma and melancholia have not only become powerful tropes in modern-day culture at large; they are also prominent in the theatre. How do contemporary plays employ these concepts? How does the staging of these 'disorders' affect the aesthetics of the plays? What exchange relations between theory and theatre can be traced? Christina Wald pursues such questions in this new study, establishing the characteristics and concerns of 'The Drama of Hysteria', 'Trauma Drama' and 'The Drama of Melancholia' through in-depth readings of works by playwrights such as Anna Furse, Terry Johnson, Sarah Daniels, Phyllis Nagy, Claire Dowie, David Auburn, Marina Carr and Sarah Kane. Conceptualising hysteria, trauma and melancholia as 'performative maladies', Wald educes an exciting interaction of theatrical performance, psychiatric and psychoanalytic theory and the theory of gender performativity.

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Palgrave Macmillan

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