Invisible Acts Microform Performing Violence Against Women In Early Modern And Contemporary Drama In English
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Invisible Acts Microform Performing Violence Against Women In Early Modern And Contemporary Drama In English
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Author : Kimberley Anne Solga
language : en
Publisher: National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada
Release Date : 2004
Invisible Acts Microform Performing Violence Against Women In Early Modern And Contemporary Drama In English written by Kimberley Anne Solga and has been published by National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004 with categories.
This thesis develops a theory and practice for the critical representation of violence against women in performance based on the premise that such violence---be it rape violence or what I define as non-sexual "punitive" violence---has historically been elided, translated into a matter between and about men. Taking "effacement" as the representational norm for women's violence in the drama as well as in the culture of early modern England, I posit a theory of representation that stages elision with difference. I focus on acts of violence left "offstage" or otherwise unrepresented in texts both Early Modern and contemporary, and explore in turn their potential to stage the very process and consequences of effacement itself. The "invisible act" of my title is the theatrical gesture that confronts audiences with the image of violence missed, with their failure to see; it argues that the deliberate refusal of representation is the condition of possibility of a critical, historicized performance of violence against women on the stage. Theoretically, I build this argument in a gap within feminist performance theory. This body of scholarship has been essential in furthering our understanding of the gendered dynamics of performance, but it has curiously never turned its attention to the vexed problem of the woman's body in violence on stage. I break into this critical lacuna with a new reading of Freud's work on femininity, arguing that Freud's always-already castrated female implies a prior, brutal, and utterly disavowed act of sexualized physical violence against women's bodies. Because feminist performance theory is deeply indebted to---though also productively critical of---Freud's philosophy of subjectivity, it is unable fully to recognize or successfully to countermand the unseen violence at its theoretical core. I then bring Jacques Lacan's writings on vision into this equation, arguing that we may articulate on stage the philosophical and cultural problem of violence's effacement by exploring the performative value of "anamorphosis"--That moment when we realize we operate within an incomplete visual field, when we confront the unsettling feeling that something has been missed, is missing.
Violence Against Women In Early Modern Performance
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Author : Kim Solga
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2009-09-29
Violence Against Women In Early Modern Performance written by Kim Solga and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-09-29 with Performing Arts categories.
Examining some of the most iconic texts in English theatre history, including Titus Andronicus and The Changeling, this book, now in paperback with a new Preface, reveals the pernicious erasure of rape and violence against women in the early modern era and the politics and ethics of rehearsing these negotiations on the 20th and 21st century stages.
Dissertation Abstracts International
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language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2007
Dissertation Abstracts International written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007 with Dissertations, Academic categories.
Performing Disability In Early Modern English Drama
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Author : Leslie C. Dunn
language : en
Publisher: Springer Nature
Release Date : 2021-01-04
Performing Disability In Early Modern English Drama written by Leslie C. Dunn and has been published by Springer Nature this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-01-04 with Literary Criticism categories.
Performing Disability in Early Modern English Drama investigates the cultural work done by early modern theatrical performances of disability. Proffering an expansive view of early modern disability in performance, the contributors suggest methodologies for finding and interpreting it in unexpected contexts. The volume also includes essays on disabled actors whose performances are changing the meanings of disability in Shakespeare for present-day audiences. By combining these two areas of scholarship, this text makes a unique intervention in early modern studies and disability studies alike. Ultimately, the volume generates a conversation that locates and theorizes the staging of particular disabilities within their historical and literary contexts while considering continuity and change in the performance of disability between the early modern period and our own.
Reel Knockouts
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Author : Martha McCaughey
language : en
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Release Date : 2010-01-01
Reel Knockouts written by Martha McCaughey and has been published by University of Texas Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-01-01 with Performing Arts categories.
When Thelma and Louise outfought the men who had tormented them, women across America discovered what male fans of action movies have long known—the empowering rush of movie violence. Yet the duo's escapades also provoked censure across a wide range of viewers, from conservatives who felt threatened by the up-ending of women's traditional roles to feminists who saw the pair's use of male-style violence as yet another instance of women's co-option by the patriarchy. In the first book-length study of violent women in movies, Reel Knockouts makes feminist sense of violent women in films from Hollywood to Hong Kong, from top-grossing to direct-to-video, and from cop-action movies to X-rated skin flicks. Contributors from a variety of disciplines analyze violent women's respective places in the history of cinema, in the lives of viewers, and in the feminist response to male violence against women. The essays in part one, "Genre Films," turn to film cycles in which violent women have routinely appeared. The essays in part two, "New Bonds and New Communities," analyze movies singly or in pairs to determine how women's movie brutality fosters solidarity amongst the characters or their audiences. All of the contributions look at films not simply in terms of whether they properly represent women or feminist principles, but also as texts with social contexts and possible uses in the re-construction of masculinity and femininity.
Writing Rape Writing Women In Early Modern England
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Author : J. Catty
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2016-01-08
Writing Rape Writing Women In Early Modern England written by J. Catty and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-01-08 with Literary Criticism categories.
The word 'rape' today denotes sexual appropriation; yet it originally signified the theft of a woman from her father or husband by abduction or elopement. In the early modern period, its meaning is in transition between these two senses, while rapes and attempted rapes proliferate in literature. This age also sees the emergence of the woman writer, despite a sexual ideology which equates women's writing with promiscuity. Classical myths, however, associate women's story-telling with resistance to rape. This comprehensive study of rape and representation considers a wide range of texts drawn from prose fiction, poetry and drama by male and female writers, both canonical and non-canonical. Combining close attention to detail with an overview of the period, it demonstrates how the representation of gender-relations has exploited the subject of rape, and uses its understanding of this phenomenon to illuminate the issues of sexual and discursive autonomy which figure largely in women's texts of the period.
The Absent Father In Modern Drama
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Author : Paul Rosefeldt
language : en
Publisher: Peter Lang Incorporated, International Academic Publishers
Release Date : 1995
The Absent Father In Modern Drama written by Paul Rosefeldt and has been published by Peter Lang Incorporated, International Academic Publishers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1995 with Drama categories.
"From the Freudians to the feminists, the role of the absent or hidden father figure has played a part in narrative and cultural theory. This work presents the first full-length examination of the absent father in modern drama. It closely analyzes major works by Ibsen, Strindberg, Chekhov, Williams, Miller, Shepard, Rabe, Henley, Norman, Pielmeier, Shaffer, Osborne, Churchill, and Fugard. Using the critical framework of psychological, deconstructive, and myth criticism, this book demonstrates how the consistent focus on an imposing father figure who never physically appears onstage affects the psychological, social, and metaphysical structure of major modern dramas."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved
Still Shakespeare And The Photography Of Performance
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Author : Sally Barnden
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2019-12-19
Still Shakespeare And The Photography Of Performance written by Sally Barnden and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-12-19 with Drama categories.
Examines both theatrical and staged art photographs, demonstrating their role in fixing and unfixing Shakespearean authority.
Theoretical Perspectives On Gender And Development
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Author : Jane L. Parpart
language : en
Publisher: IDRC
Release Date : 2000
Theoretical Perspectives On Gender And Development written by Jane L. Parpart and has been published by IDRC this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000 with Feminism categories.
Theoretical Perspectives on Gender and Development demytsifies the theory of gender and development and shows how it plays an important role in everyday life. It explores the evolution of gender and development theory, introduces competing theoretical frameworks, and examines new and emerging debates. The focus is on the implications of theory for policy and practice, and the need to theorize gender and development to create a more egalitarian society. This book is intended for classroom and workshop use in the fields ofdevelopment studies, development theory, gender and development, and women's studies. Its clear and straightforward prose will be appreciated by undergraduate and seasoned professional, alike. Classroom exercises, study questions, activities, and case studies are included. It is designed for use in both formal and nonformal educational settings.
Mnemopoetics
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Author : Valérie Bada
language : en
Publisher: Peter Lang
Release Date : 2008
Mnemopoetics written by Valérie Bada and has been published by Peter Lang this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008 with Drama categories.
From its very beginning, African American drama has borne witness to the creative power of the slaves to maintain their human dignity as well as to fashion a complex culture of survival. If the memory of slavery has always been at the heart of the African American theatrical tradition, it is the way in which it is processed and inscribed that has developed and is still changing. Through the close reading and socio-historical analysis of eight plays from 1939 to 1996, the author seeks to unravel the fluctuating patterns in the shaping of the theatrical memory of slavery long after its abolition. To do so, she defines the concept and practice of mnemopoetics as the making of memory through imagination as well as the critical approaches that decipher and interpret cultural productions of memory. As a constellation of processes akin to the fluidity of memory, mnemopoetics blends creative representation and critical exploration to suggest that the cultural creation of memory necessarily entails a self-reflexive involvement with its own interpretation. If slavery embodies the deep, foundational memory of America, African American drama represents the open, communal space where it becomes possible to convert the irretrievable nature of a vicarious past into the redeeming function of a collective memory.