Performing Mourning

Author : Guy Cools
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2021-06
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 949209598X

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Performing Mourning by Guy Cools Pdf

Each person?s grief is as unique as their fingerprint. But what everyone has in common is that no matter how they grieve, they share a need for their grief to be witnessed.?0David Kessler (2019)0The pandemic has once again made us more aware of the fragility of life and the importance of being able to properly mourn the dead. Dramaturg Guy Cools has been researching laments and other rituals of mourning. He is particularly interested in how the emotions of loss need to be externalized. The laments are a formal device, used in many cultures to express and contain the emotions of grief.0In a poetic, meandering, personal way Cools explores cultural habits, traditions, rituals, and artists? performances. His narrative looks into many forms of laments: literary, anthropological, philosophical, and in contemporary art practices. The latter part delves into artistic strategies to address or embody mourning: dialogical strategies that deal with personal losses; collective mourning rituals and how they invite communities to witness these losses; contemporary examples of laments that are not only used to dialogue with the dead but also to communicate with loved ones who are absent because of migration or exile; a very specific form of mourning that occurs when we grieve for the unrealized potential of a child?s unlived life, including that of an unborn child. And finally, the very recent phenomenon of lamenting not just the losses of the past, but also the loss of a future.

Author : Peggy Phelan
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2013-07-23
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781136184833

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Mourning Sex by Peggy Phelan Pdf

This is a book about the exhilaration and the catastrophe of embodiment. Analyzing different instances of injured bodies, Peggy Phelan considers what sustained attention to the affective force of trauma might yield for critical theory. Advocating what she calls "performative writing", she creates an extraordinary fusion of critical and creative thinking which erodes the distinction between art and theory, fact and fiction. The bodies she examines here include Christ's, as represented in Caravaggio's painting The Incredulity of St Thomas, Anita Hill's and Clarence Thomas's bodies as they were performed during the Senate hearings, the disinterred body of the Rose Theatre, exemplary bodies reconstructed through psychoanalytic talking cures, and the filmic bodies created by Tom Joslin, Mark Massi, and Peter Friedman in Silverlake Life: The View From Here. This new work by the highly-acclaimed author of Unmarked makes a stunning advance in performance theory in dialogue with psychoanalysis, queer theory, and cultural studies.

Author : Sarah Julius
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2021-10-30
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9783030847746

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Re-performance, Mourning and Death by Sarah Julius Pdf

This book examines the recent trend for re-performance and how this impacts on the relationship between live performance and death. Focusing specifically on examples of performance art the text analyses the relationship between performance, re-performance and death, comparing the process of re-performance to the process of mourning and arguing that both of these are processes of adaptation and survival. Using a variety of case studies, including performances by Ron Athey, Julie Tolentino, Martin O’Brien, Sheree Rose, Jo Spence and Hannah Wilke, the book explores performances which can be considered acts of re-performance, as well as performances which examine some of the critical concerns of re-performance, including notions of illness, loss and death. By drawing upon both philosophical and performance studies discourses the text takes a novel approach to the relationship between re-performance, mourning and death.

Author : Athena Athanasiou
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2017-05-18
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781474420167

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Agonistic Mourning by Athena Athanasiou Pdf

Drawing on a range of philosophical, anthropological and political theories, Athena Athanasiou offers a new way of thinking about agonistic performativity with its critical connections to national and gender politics and alongside the political intricacies of affectivity, courage and justice. Through an ethnographic account of the urban feminist and antinationalist movement Women in Black of Belgrade during the Yugoslav wars, she shows that we might understand their dissident politics of mourning as a means to refigure political life beyond sovereign accounts of subjectivity and agency.

Author : Adrian Kear,Deborah Lynn Steinberg
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2002-01-22
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781134650415

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Mourning Diana by Adrian Kear,Deborah Lynn Steinberg Pdf

The death of Diana, Princess of Wales, on September 1 1997, prompted public demonstrations of grief on an almost unprecented global scale. But, while global media coverage of the events following her death appeared to create an international 'community of mourning', popular reacions in fact reflected the complexities of the princess's public image and the tensions surrounding the popular conception of royalty. Mourning Diana examines the events which followed the death of Diana as a series of cultural-political phenomena, from the immediate aftermath as crowds gathered in public spaces and royal palaces, to the state funeral in Westminister Abbey, examining the performance of grief and the involvement of the global media in the creation of narratives and spectacles relating to the commemoration of her life. Contributors investigate the complex iconic status of Diana, as a public figure able to sustain a host of alternative identifications, and trace the posthumous romanticisation of aspects of her life such as her charity activism and her relationship with Dodi al Fayed. The contributors argue that the events following the death of Diana dramatised a complex set of cultural tensions in which the boundaries dividing nationhood and citizenship, charity and activism, private feeling and public politics, were redrawn.

Author : Ashlee Cunsolo,Karen Landman
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2017-05-17
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780773549357

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Mourning Nature by Ashlee Cunsolo,Karen Landman Pdf

We are facing unprecedented environmental challenges, including global climate change, large-scale industrial development, rapidly increasing species extinction, ocean acidification, and deforestation – challenges that require new vocabularies and new ways to express grief and sorrow over the disappearance, degradation, and loss of nature. Seeking to redress the silence around ecologically based anxiety in academic and public domains, and to extend the concepts of sadness, anger, and loss, Mourning Nature creates a lexicon for the recognition and expression of emotions related to environmental degradation. Exploring the ways in which grief is experienced in numerous contexts, this groundbreaking collection draws on classical, philosophical, artistic, and poetic elements to explain environmental melancholia. Understanding that it is not just how we mourn but what we mourn that defines us, the authors introduce new perspectives on conservation, sustainability, and our relationships with nature. An ecological elegy for a time of climatic and environmental upheaval, Mourning Nature challenges readers to turn devastating events into an opportunity for positive change. Contributors include Glenn Albrecht (Murdoch University, retired); Jessica Marion Barr (Trent University); Sebastian Braun (University of North Dakota); Ashlee Cunsolo (Labrador Institute of Memorial University); Amanda Di Battista (York University); Franklin Ginn (University of Edinburgh); Bernie Krause (soundscape ecologist, author, and independent scholar); Lisa Kretz (University of Evansville); Karen Landman (University of Guelph); Patrick Lane (Poet); Andrew Mark (independent scholar); Nancy Menning (Ithaca College); John Charles Ryan (University of New England); Catriona Sandilands (York University); and Helen Whale (independent scholar).

Author : Nicola Laneri
Publisher : Institute for the Study of Ancient Cultures
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : History
ISBN : IND:30000122851797

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Performing Death by Nicola Laneri Pdf

This volume represents a collection of contributions presented by the authors during the Second Annual University of Chicago Oriental Institute Seminar "Performing Death: Social Analyses of Funerary Traditions in the Ancient Mediterranean," held at the Oriental Institute, February 17-18, 2006. The principal aim of the two-day seminar was to interpret the social relevance resulting from the enactment of funerary rituals within the broad-reaching Mediterranean basin from prehistoric periods to the Roman Age. Efforts were concentrated on creating a panel composed of scholars with diverse backgrounds - anthropologists, historians, archaeologists, art historians, and philologists - and the knowledge and expertise to enrich the discussion through the presentation of case-studies linked to both textual and archaeological evidence from the Mediterranean region. Fundamental to the successful realisation of this research process was the active dialogue between scholars of different backgrounds. These communicative exchanges provided the opportunity to integrate different approaches and interpretations concerning the role played by the performance of ancient funerary rituals within a given society and, as a result, helped in defining a coherent outcome towards the interpretation of ancient communities' behaviours.

Author : Susan L. Cole
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2010-11-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0271038128

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The Absent One by Susan L. Cole Pdf

Here is presented a new theory of the origins of tragedy, based on its perceived kinship with mourning ritual. Mourners and tragic protagonists alike journey through dangerous transitional states, confront the uncanny, express themselves in antithetical style, and, above all, enact their ambivalence toward their beloved dead. Elements common to both tragedy and mourning ritual are first identified in actual Chinese, African, and Greek funerary rites and then analyzed in tragedies by Aeschylus, Sophocles, Shakespeare, Racine, Ibsen, O'Neill, Miller, Beckett, and Ionesco. Included is a firsthand account of exploration of the tragedy-mourning link in the rehearsal process of the great experimental theater director, Joseph Chaikin. Opening her first chapter, Dr. Cole says, "The grave is the birthplace of tragic drama and ghosts are its procreators. For tragedy is the performance of ambivalence which ghosts emblematize: what we fear in particular--the revenant, the ghost returning to haunt us--is also what we desire--the extending of life beyond the moment of death."

Author : Thierry Bokanowski
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2018-05-08
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780429902611

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On Freud's Mourning and Melancholia by Thierry Bokanowski Pdf

Both melancholia and mourning are triggered by the same thing, that is, by loss. The distinction often made is that mourning occurs after the death of a loved one while in melancholia the object of love does not qualify as irretrievably lost.

Author : William Congreve
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 58 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1806
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BL:A0022529234

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The Mourning Bride ... As Performed at the Theatre Royal, Covent Garden. Printed ... from the Prompt Book. With Remarks by Mrs Inchbald by William Congreve Pdf

Author : William Congreve
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 72 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1785
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BL:A0022543234

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The Mourning Bride ... Marked as Performed at the Theatres-Royal in Drury-Lane and Covent-Garden by William Congreve Pdf

Author : Jane W. Davidson,Sandra Garrido
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2016-04-28
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781317092407

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Music and Mourning by Jane W. Davidson,Sandra Garrido Pdf

While grief is suffered in all cultures, it is expressed differently all over the world in accordance with local customs and beliefs. Music has been associated with the healing of grief for many centuries, with Homer prescribing music as an antidote to sorrow as early as the 7th Century BC. The changing role of music in expressions of grief and mourning throughout history and in different cultures reflects the changing attitudes of society towards life and death itself. This volume investigates the role of music in mourning rituals across time and culture, discussing the subject from the multiple perspectives of music history, music psychology, ethnomusicology and music therapy.

Author : Cecilia Sosa
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : BUSINESS & ECONOMICS
ISBN : 9781855662797

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Queering Acts of Mourning in the Aftermath of Argentina's Dictatorship by Cecilia Sosa Pdf

Shows how the experience of violence in Argentina shed light on a new sense of "being together" that goes beyond bloodline ties.

Author : Katharine Goodland
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2017-03-02
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781351936644

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Female Mourning and Tragedy in Medieval and Renaissance English Drama by Katharine Goodland Pdf

Grieving women in early modern English drama, this study argues, recall not only those of Classical tragedy, but also, and more significantly, the lamenting women of medieval English drama, especially the Virgin Mary. Looking at the plays of Shakespeare, Kyd, and Webster, this book presents a new perspective on early modern drama grounded upon three original interrelated points. First, it explores how the motif of the mourning woman on the early modern stage embodies the cultural trauma of the Reformation in England. Second, the author here brings to light the extent to which the figures of early modern drama recall those of the recent medieval past. Finally, Goodland addresses how these representations embody actual mourning practices that were viewed as increasingly disturbing after the Reformation. Female Mourning and Tragedy in Medieval and Renaissance English Drama synthesizes and is relevant to several areas of recent scholarly interest, including the performance of gender, the history of emotion, studies of death and mourning, and the cultural trauma of the Reformation.

Author : Laurence A. Rickels
Publisher : Wayne State University Press
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : History
ISBN : 0814318266

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Aberrations of Mourning by Laurence A. Rickels Pdf