Reassembling Pain, Reassembling the Reading of Fiction: An Inquiry into the Ontology of Drama

Baudner, Eric

ISBN 10: 3662626233 / ISBN 13: 9783662626238

Published by J B Metzler'Sche Verlagsbuchhandl, 2021

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236 pages. 8.27x5.83x0.54 inches. In Stock.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Reassembling Pain, Reassembling the Reading of Fiction: An Inquiry into the Ontology of Drama
• Publisher: J B Metzler'Sche Verlagsbuchhandl
• Publication Date: 2021
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 3662626233
• ISBN 13: 9783662626238
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: Brand New
• Weight: 0.38 kilograms

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Synopsis

The present book deals with Sarah Kane’s dramatic text Cleansed to show a specific negotiation of violence, pain, life and death – one that is not necessarily causal or dichotomous. Instead, a new mode of reading, based on Bruno Latour’s take on Actor-Network-Theory, helps to make fictional worlds simultaneously intelligible in a mediate and in an immediate way. This results in an unprecedented understanding of how language can influence and modify ontological configurations. Eventually, this allows for a re-evaluation of political problems that occur in the 20th and 21st century.

About the Author

About the author

Eric Baudner studied English and German studies at Heinrich-Heine-University Düsseldorf. The present work was finished with the help of a scholarship within the DFG post graduate program “Materiality and Production”.