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Performing Bodies in Pain

Medieval and Post-Modern Martyrs, Mystics, and Artists
By:M. Carlson
Publisher:Springer Nature
Print ISBN:9780230103863
eText ISBN:9780230111486
Edition:0
Copyright:2010
Format:Page Fidelity

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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.