Beschreibung
This book joins Krzysztof Warlikowski’s theater with the dynamic changes in Polish society following 1989, using strategies borrowed from psychoanalysis, theater anthropology, performance studies, and cultural poetics. The plays are analyzed in terms of their affective impacts, as symptoms of social drama.
Autorenportrait
Grzegorz Nizio?ek is a professor at the Jagiellonian University and at the Ludwik Solski State Drama School in Kraków. He is the co-founder and editor-in-chief of a theater magazine and the author of several books, among which are titles on Krystian Lupa, Tadeusz Ró?ewicz and the Polish theater of the Holocaust.
Inhalt
Contents: Krzysztof Warlikowski – Theater – Social Drama – Liminality – Polish Transformation after 1989 – Revulsion – Affects – Psychoanalysis – Trauma – Melancholy – Cultural Gender – Violence – Forgiveness.
