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Informationen zum Autor Lauren de Vos is a Lecturer in Comparative Literature at Ghent University Graham Saunders is a Lecturer in Theatre Studies at the University of Reading Klappentext First collection of essays, by some of the leading scholars in their field on one of the most controversial and influential dramatists who emerged during the 'In-Yer Face' generation of British dramatists in the 1990s. Essential, wide-ranging, European guide to Kane for students and scholars of Theatre Studies or English Literature. Zusammenfassung First collection of essays, by some of the leading scholars in their field on one of the most controversial and influential dramatists who emerged during the ‘In-Yer Face’ generation of British dramatists in the 1990s. Essential, wide-ranging, European guide to Kane for students and scholars of Theatre Studies or English Literature. -- . Inhaltsverzeichnis ContentsIntroduction(Laurens De Vos and Graham Saunders)Part I: Surrounding Voices1. Reviewing the fabric of Blasted(Elaine Aston)2. Sarah Kane before Blasted: the monologues(Dan Rebellato)3. 'Looks like there's a war on': Sarah Kane's Blasted, political theatre and the Muslim Other(Aleks Sierz)4. Staging Power: the politics of sex and death in Seneca's Phaedra and Kane's Phaedra's Love(Zina Giannopoulou)5. The Beckettian world of Sarah Kane(Graham Saunders)6. Cruelty, violence and rituals in Sarah Kane's plays(Stefani Brusberg-Kiermeier)7. Sarah Kane, experiential theatre and the revenant avant-garde(Clare Wallace)Part II: Subjectivity, Responsibility and Representation8. The voice of Kane(Ehren Fordyce)9. 'I love you now': time and desire in the plays of Sarah Kane(Robert I. Lublin)10. Sarah Kane and Antonin Artaud: cruelty towards the subjectile(Laurens De Vos)11. Posthumanist identities in Sarah Kane(Julie Waddington)12. Neither here nor there: theatrical space in Kane's work(Annette Pankratz)13.'Victim. Perpetrator. Bystander': critical distance in Sarah Kane's Theatre of Cruelty(Hillary Chute)14. Sarah Kane's Phaedra's Love: staging the implacable(Peter A. Campbell)15. Under the surface of things. Sarah Kane's Skin and the medium of theatre(Mateusz Borowski) 16. 'We are anathema' - Sarah Kane's plays as postdramatic theatre v. the 'Dreary and repugnant tale of sense'(Eckart Voigts-Virchow)Epilogue'The mark of Kane'(Edward Bond)References List of Contributors Index...
