Performing Bodies in Pain: Medieval and Post-Modern Martyrs, Mystics, and Artists - Paperback

by M. Carlson (Author)

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.

Author Biography

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