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1 online resource (301 pages) |
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TABLE OF CONTENTS; LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS; INTRODUCTION; PART ONE; CHAPTER ONE; CHAPTER TWO; CHAPTER THREE; CHAPTER FOUR; CHAPTER FIVE; PART TWO; CHAPTER SIX; CHAPTER SEVEN; CHAPTER EIGHT; PART THREE; CHAPTER NINE; CHAPTER TEN; CHAPTER ELEVEN; PART FOUR; CHAPTER TWELVE; CHAPTER THIRTEEN; PART FIVE; CHAPTER FOURTEEN; CHAPTER FIFTEEN; CHAPTER SIXTEEN; GENERAL BIBLIOGRAPHY; CONTRIBUTORS |
| Summary |
In his short story "The Hunger Artist," Kafka imagined the theatrical career of a "professional faster" whose performance consists merely in displaying his own starving body before an avid audience. Kafka thus paradoxically suggested that hunger, mere emptiness working its way through declining bodies, may be a privileged theatrical object. Hunger often signals an anchorage in socio-historical reality, and invites extreme situations on stage, articulating large-scale cataclysms (famines, the .. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Notes |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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| Subject |
English drama -- History and criticism
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Hunger in literature.
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DRAMA -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
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English drama
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Hunger in literature
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Hunger in literature.
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English drama -- History and criticism.
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Poulain, Alexandra.
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| LC no. |
2008277781 |
| ISBN |
9781443814966 |
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1443814962 |
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1282414143 |
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9781282414143 |
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9786612414145 |
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6612414146 |
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