Performing Bodies in Pain: Medieval and Post-Modern Martyrs, Mystics, and Artists

This text analyzes the cultural work of spectacular suffering in contemporary discourse and late-medieval France, reading recent dramatizations of torture and performances of self-mutilating conceptual art against late-medieval saint plays.

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Published: 09/27/2011
ISBN: 9781349288274
Pages: 227
Weight: 0.62lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.51d