Reassembling Pain, Reassembling the Reading of Fiction

An Inquiry into the Ontology of Drama
1. Auflage 2021
ISBN: 978-3-662-62623-8
Verlag: Springer

Buch, Englisch, 229 Seiten, Format (B × H): 148 mm x 210 mm, Gewicht: 311 g

Reihe: Research

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.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Baudner, Eric

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Europäische Literatur
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft: Dramen und Dramatiker
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Moderne Philosophische Disziplinen Dekonstruktivismus, Strukturalismus, Poststrukturalismus

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction.- Textual pre-figuration.- Ontological pre-figuration.- How to reassemble reading.

Über Autor(innen)

About the authorEric 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”.