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Body and Event in Howard Barker's Drama

From Catastrophe to Anastrophe in The Castle and Other Plays

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Authors:
  1. Alireza Fakhrkonandeh

    1. University of Southampton, Southampton, UK

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  • Represents the first book to apply Deleuze's 'philosophy of the event' to Barker's work

  • Offers a new re-contextualization of The Castle in the context of post-9/11 and Brexit

  • Brings feminist theory to bear on The Castle and other plays

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Table of contents (6 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xvii
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  2. Encastleing England: Evental History and Histor(y)iography in Barker’s Work

    • Alireza Fakhrkonandeh
    Pages 1-27

  3. The Castle and Other Plays

    • Alireza Fakhrkonandeh
    Pages 29-59

  4. Desire, Language and Pregnancy/Maternity in The Castle and Other Plays

    • Alireza Fakhrkonandeh
    Pages 61-85

  5. Aporias of Religion in Barker: God, Deconstruction, and the Re-writing of the Bible

    • Alireza Fakhrkonandeh
    Pages 87-105

  6. Disciplinary Apparatus and the Paining of Transgressive Bodies

    • Alireza Fakhrkonandeh
    Pages 107-121

  7. The Moment of Con-tactile Aesth-Ethics

    • Alireza Fakhrkonandeh
    Pages 123-140

  8. Back Matter

    Pages 141-151
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About this book

This book explores questions of gender, desire, embodiment, and language in Barker’s oeuvre. With The Castle as a focal point, the scope extends considerably beyond this play to incorporate analysis and exploration of the Theatre of Catastrophe; questions of gender, subjectivity and desire; God/religion; aesthetics of the self; autonomy-heteronomy; ethics; and the relation between political and libidinal economy, at stake in 20 other plays by Barker (including Rome, The Power of the Dog, The Bite of the Night, Judith, Possibilities, I Saw Myself, Fence in Its Thousandth Year, The Gaoler’s Ache for the Nearly Dead, The Brilliance of the Servant, Golgo, among others).  

Authors and Affiliations

  • University of Southampton, Southampton, UK

    Alireza Fakhrkonandeh

About the author

Alireza Fakhrkonandeh is Lecturer in Modern and Contemporary Drama and Literary Theory at the University of Southampton, UK. He has published in such journals as ANQ, Theatre Quarterly, Textual Practice, Comparative Drama, and the Journal of Contemporary Drama in English. He is the academic translator of Howard Barker's works from English into Persian.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Body and Event in Howard Barker's Drama

  • Book Subtitle: From Catastrophe to Anastrophe in The Castle and Other Plays

  • Authors: Alireza Fakhrkonandeh

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-28699-6

  • Publisher: Palgrave Pivot Cham

  • eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2019

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-28698-9Published: 19 November 2019

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-28699-6Published: 09 November 2019

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XVII, 151

  • Topics: Performing Arts, Drama

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