Of Precariousness : : Vulnerabilities, Responsibilities, Communities in 21st-Century British Drama and Theatre /

Of Precariousness : : Vulnerabilities, Responsibilities, Communities in 21st-Century British Drama and Theatre / / ed. by Mireia Aragay, Martin Middeke.

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Drawing primarily on Judith Butler’s, Jacques Derrida’s, Emmanuel Levinas’s and Jean-Luc Nancy’s reflections on precariousness/precarity, the Self and the Other, ethical responsibility/obligation, forgiveness, hos(ti)pitality and community, the essays in this volume examine the various ways in which...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Plus DeG Package 2017 Part 1
MitwirkendeR:
Aragay, Mireia,
Attinger, Christian,
Auerswald, Bettina,
Baraniecka, Elżbieta,
Delgado-García, Cristina,
Escoda, Clara,
Henke, Christoph,
Kerler, David,
Middeke, Martin,
Monforte, Enric,
Prado, José R.,
Riedelsheimer, Martin,
Rodríguez, Verónica,
Sorian, Adina,
HerausgeberIn:
Aragay, Mireia,
Middeke, Martin,
Place / Publishing House:Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2017]
©2017
Year of Publication:2017
Language:English
Series:Contemporary Drama in English Studies , 28
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Physical Description:1 online resource (VIII, 241 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Acknowledgements
  • Table of Contents
  • Precariousness in Drama and Theatre: An Introduction
  • On the Threshold: Precarious Hospitalities as Utopian Imaginings in Pornography, Fewer Emergencies and The American Pilot
  • Staging Terror and Precariousness in Simon Stephens’s Pornography and Mark Ravenhill’s Shoot/Get Treasure/Repeat
  • Staging Hobbes, or: Theseus Goes to the Theatre. Precariousness, Cultural Memory and Dystopia in Philip Ridley’s Mercury Fur
  • Jez Butterworth’s Jerusalem and Postmodern Precariousness
  • Precarious Virtuality in Participatory Theatre: Tim Crouch’s The Author
  • “We’re All in This Together”: Reality, Vulnerability and Democratic Representation in Tim Crouch’s The Author
  • Promises of the Real? The Precariousness of Verbatim Theatre and Robin Soans’s Talking to Terrorists
  • Spaces for the Construction of Community: The Theatre Uncut Phenomenon
  • Living in Liquid Times: Precariousness and Plasticity in Forced Entertainment’s Tomorrow’s Parties
  • Bridging Precariousness and Precarity: Ecstasy and Bleeding Across in the Work of David Greig and Suspect Culture
  • Precariousness of Love and Shattered Subjects in Dennis Kelly’s Love and Money
  • Ethics, Precariousness and the ‘Inclination’ towards the Other in debbie tucker green’s dirty butterfly, Laura Wade’s Posh and Martin Crimp’s In the Republic of Happiness
  • Vulnerability and the Community of the Precarious in David Greig’s The Events
  • The Inoperative Community and Death: Ontological Aspects of the Precarious in David Greig’s The Events and Caryl Churchill’s Here We Go
  • Notes on Contributors
  • Index

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