Reassembling Pain, Reassembling the Reading of Fiction: An Inquiry into the Ontology of Drama

Baudner, Eric

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.

Details

Published by: J.B. Metzler

Publication Date: 2021-01-18

Format: Paperback

ISBN-13: 9783662626238

DOI: 10.1007/978-3-662-62624-5

Dimensions: 210cm x148cm

Pages: 229