E-Book, Englisch, 368 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm
Macsotay / Haven / Vanhaesebrouck The hurt(ful) body
1. Auflage 2017
ISBN: 978-1-5261-1352-8
Verlag: NYU Press
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: 6 - ePub Watermark
Performing and beholding pain, 1600-1800
E-Book, Englisch, 368 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm
ISBN: 978-1-5261-1352-8
Verlag: NYU Press
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: 6 - ePub Watermark
This book offers a cross-disciplinary approach to pain and suffering in the early modern period, based on research in the fields of literary studies, art history, theatre studies, cultural history and the study of emotions. The volume's two-fold approach to the hurt body, defining 'hurt' from the perspectives of both victim and beholder - as well as their combined creation of a gaze - is unique. It establishes a double perspective about the riddle of 'cruel' viewing by tracking the shifting cultural meanings of victims' bodies and confronting them with the values of audiences, religious and popular institutional settings and practices of punishment. It encompasses both the victim's presence as an image or performed event of pain and the conundrum of the look - the transmitted 'pain' experienced by the watching audience.
