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

Baudner, Eric

 
9783662626238: Reassembling Pain, Reassembling the Reading of Fiction: An Inquiry into the Ontology of Drama
Softcover
ISBN 10: 3662626233 ISBN 13: 9783662626238
Publisher: J.B. Metzler, 2021

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.

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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”.

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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
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”.

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Publisher
J.B. Metzler
Publication date
2021
Language
English
ISBN 10 
3662626233
ISBN 13 
9783662626238
Binding
Paperback
Edition number
1
Number of pages
235