Hysteria, Trauma and Melancholia: Performative Maladies in Contemporary Anglophone DramaHysteria, 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, Jerry Johnson, Sarah, Daniels, Phylis 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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... notion of hysteria as performative malady in contrast to Furse's concept of hysteria as a genuinely female mode of expression . I will argue that the notion of hysteria as performative malady allows a productive way of dealing with the ...
... notion of hysteria as performative malady in contrast to Furse's concept of hysteria as a genuinely female mode of expression . I will argue that the notion of hysteria as performative malady allows a productive way of dealing with the ...
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... notion of melancholia as the concomitant of exceptional intellectual or artistic talent circulated in many phases of melancholia's history . In current medical theory , the concept has been replaced by other diagnostic categories , most ...
... notion of melancholia as the concomitant of exceptional intellectual or artistic talent circulated in many phases of melancholia's history . In current medical theory , the concept has been replaced by other diagnostic categories , most ...
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... notion of melancholia for gender theory , Butler's notion of gender as an inherently melancholic activity lends itself to examining the gendered reactions to loss depicted in the plays . As I will elaborate in the following , the ...
... notion of melancholia for gender theory , Butler's notion of gender as an inherently melancholic activity lends itself to examining the gendered reactions to loss depicted in the plays . As I will elaborate in the following , the ...
Contents
From termini technici | 10 |
Can performativity materialise as performance? | 17 |
The Drama of Hysteria | 27 |
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