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Barker, Howard, 1946- -- Criticism and interpretation.
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1 online resource (xiii, 238 pages) : digital file(s). |
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Made available via: manchesterhive. |
| Contents |
1. Introduction: The ultimate matter of style - David Ian Rabey -- 2. Performance within performance: Howard Barker and the acted life - some thoughts - Melanie Jessop -- 3. Unearthly powers of invention: speech, report and repetition in recent Wrestling School productions - James Reynolds -- 4. Reinventing 'grand narratives': Barker's challenge to postmodernism - Elisabeth Angel-Perez -- 5. Institutions, icons and the body in Barker's plays, 1977-86 - Ian Cooper -- 6. Access to the body: the theatre of revelation in Beckett, Foreman, and Barker - George Hunka -- 7. 'Not nude but naked': nakedness and nudity in Barker's drama - Eléonore Obis -- 8. Places of punishment: surveillance, reason and desire in the plays of Howard Barker - Michael Mangan -- 9. Barker, criticism and the philosophy of 'The art of theatre' - Mark Brown -- 10. Staging Barker in France 2009 - Christine Kiehl -- 11. 21 for 21: A breakthrough moment in terms of the global theatre-making community's collaborative capacity? - Sarah Goldingay -- 12. I saw myself: artist and critic meet in the mirror - Mary Karen Dahl -- 13. 'His niece or his sister': genealogical uncertainties and literary filiation in Barker's Gertrude - The Cry - Vanasay Khamphommala -- 14. History in the age of fracture: catastrophic time in Barker's The Bite of the Night - Jay Gipson-King -- 15. The dying of today and the meta-stases of language: from history to tale to play to mise-en-scène - Elizabeth Sakellaridou -- 16. 'The substrata of experience': Barker's poetry, 1988-2008 - David Ian Rabey -- 17. Reading Howard Barker's pictorial art - Charles Lamb -- 18. Howard Barker's paintings, poems and plays: 'in the deed itself', or the triple excavation of the unchangeable - Michel Morel -- 19. Memories of paintings in Howard Barker's theatre - Heiner Zimmermann -- 20. The sunless garden of the unconsoled: some destinations beyond catastrophe - Howard Barker -- 21. Howard Barker and David Ian Rabey in conversation, New York 2010 -- Appendix: Howard Barker: chronology and bibliography -- Index. |
| Alt author |
Rabey, David Ian, 1958- editor.
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Goldingay, Sarah, editor.
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Manchester University Press, provider, publisher.
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| ISBN |
9781526111234 (PDF ebook) |
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9781526111227 (EPUB ebook) |
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9780719089299 (hardback) |
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9781526106926 (paperback) |
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10.7765/9781526111234 doi |
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www.manchesterhive.com/view/9781526111234/9781526111234.xml |
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