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

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan.
Series: Palgrave Studies in Theatre and Performance History.
Publication due: 20 January 2011.
Page count: 240pp.

Publisher's recommended price
Hardback ISBN 978, £52.50

Description:

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.

Contents:
Feeling Torture; Imagining Death; Enduring Ecstasy; Whipping up Community; Containing Chaos .