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.

Autorentext
Marla Carlson is Associate Professor of Theatre at the University of Georgia, USA

Inhalt
Introduction Feeling Torture Imagining Death Enduring Ecstasy Whipping up Community Containing Chaos Conclusion