Reassembling Pain, Reassembling the Reading of Fiction: An Inquiry into the Ontology of Drama
The present book deals with Sarah Kane’s dramatic text Cleansed to show a specific negotiation of violence, pain, life and death – one that is not necessarily causal or dichotomous. Instead, a new mode of reading, based on Bruno Latour’s take on Actor-Network-Theory, helps to make fictional worlds simultaneously intelligible in a mediate and in an immediate way. This results in an unprecedented understanding of how language can influence and modify ontological configurations. Eventually, this allows for a re-evaluation of political problems that occur in the 20th and 21st century.
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Reassembling Pain, Reassembling the Reading of Fiction: An Inquiry into the Ontology of Drama
The present book deals with Sarah Kane’s dramatic text Cleansed to show a specific negotiation of violence, pain, life and death – one that is not necessarily causal or dichotomous. Instead, a new mode of reading, based on Bruno Latour’s take on Actor-Network-Theory, helps to make fictional worlds simultaneously intelligible in a mediate and in an immediate way. This results in an unprecedented understanding of how language can influence and modify ontological configurations. Eventually, this allows for a re-evaluation of political problems that occur in the 20th and 21st century.
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Reassembling Pain, Reassembling the Reading of Fiction: An Inquiry into the Ontology of Drama

Reassembling Pain, Reassembling the Reading of Fiction: An Inquiry into the Ontology of Drama

by Eric Baudner
Reassembling Pain, Reassembling the Reading of Fiction: An Inquiry into the Ontology of Drama

Reassembling Pain, Reassembling the Reading of Fiction: An Inquiry into the Ontology of Drama

by Eric Baudner

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Overview

The present book deals with Sarah Kane’s dramatic text Cleansed to show a specific negotiation of violence, pain, life and death – one that is not necessarily causal or dichotomous. Instead, a new mode of reading, based on Bruno Latour’s take on Actor-Network-Theory, helps to make fictional worlds simultaneously intelligible in a mediate and in an immediate way. This results in an unprecedented understanding of how language can influence and modify ontological configurations. Eventually, this allows for a re-evaluation of political problems that occur in the 20th and 21st century.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9783662626238
Publisher: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Publication date: 01/17/2021
Edition description: 1st ed. 2021
Pages: 229
Product dimensions: 5.83(w) x 8.27(h) x (d)

About the Author

About the author
Eric Baudner studied English and German studies at Heinrich-Heine-University Düsseldorf. The present work was finished with the help of a scholarship within the DFG post graduate program “Materiality and Production”.

Table of Contents

Introduction.- Textual pre-figuration.- Ontological pre-figuration.- How to reassemble reading.
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