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The Medieval Theater of Cruelty
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The Medieval Theater of Cruelty

Rhetoric, Memory, Violence
BookPaperback
Ranking79094inSprachen
CHF46.90

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Why did medieval dramatists include so many scenes of torture in their plays? Exploring the cultural connections among rhetoric, law, drama, literary creation, and violence, Jody Enders addresses an issue that has long troubled students of the Middle Ages. According to Enders, theories of rhetoric and law of the time reveal that the ideology of torture was a widely accepted means for exploiting such essential elements of the stage and stagecraft as dramatic verisimilitude, pity, fear, and catharsis in order to fabricate truth.
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ISBN/GTIN978-0-8014-8783-5
Product TypeBook
BindingPaperback
Publishing date25/04/2002
Pages288 pages
LanguageEnglish
SizeWidth 152 mm, Height 227 mm, Thickness 23 mm
Weight451 g
Article no.2932994
CatalogsBuchzentrum
Data source no.20262453
Product groupSprachen
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