Hunger on the Stage.

By:

Angel-Perez, Elisabeth

Contributor(s):

Poulain, Alexandra

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: Newcastle upon Tyne : Cambridge Scholars Pub., 2008.Description: 1 online resource (301 pages)Content type:

text

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computer

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online resource

ISBN:

9781443814966
1443814962
1282414143
9781282414143
9786612414145
6612414146

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Hunger on the Stage.DDC classification:

822.0093561

LOC classification:

PR635.T45 H86 2008

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Contents:

TABLE OF CONTENTS; LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS; INTRODUCTION; PART ONE; CHAPTER ONE; CHAPTER TWO; CHAPTER THREE; CHAPTER FOUR; CHAPTER FIVE; PART TWO; CHAPTER SIX; CHAPTER SEVEN; CHAPTER EIGHT; PART THREE; CHAPTER NINE; CHAPTER TEN; CHAPTER ELEVEN; PART FOUR; CHAPTER TWELVE; CHAPTER THIRTEEN; PART FIVE; CHAPTER FOURTEEN; CHAPTER FIFTEEN; CHAPTER SIXTEEN; GENERAL BIBLIOGRAPHY; CONTRIBUTORS.

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Summary: In his short story "The Hunger Artist," Kafka imagined the theatrical career of a "professional faster" whose performance consists merely in displaying his own starving body before an avid audience. Kafka thus paradoxically suggested that hunger, mere emptiness working its way through declining bodies, may be a privileged theatrical object. Hunger often signals an anchorage in socio-historical reality, and invites extreme situations on stage, articulating large-scale cataclysms (famines, the ...

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In his short story "The Hunger Artist," Kafka imagined the theatrical career of a "professional faster" whose performance consists merely in displaying his own starving body before an avid audience. Kafka thus paradoxically suggested that hunger, mere emptiness working its way through declining bodies, may be a privileged theatrical object. Hunger often signals an anchorage in socio-historical reality, and invites extreme situations on stage, articulating large-scale cataclysms (famines, the ...

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