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Abstract
On Repetition aims to unpack the different uses and functions of repetition within contemporary performance, dance practices, craft and writing. The collection, edited by Eirini Kartsaki, explores repetition in relation to intimacy, laughter, technology, familiarity and fear – proposing a new vocabulary for understanding what is at stake in works that repeat. Drawing on psychoanalysis, philosophy, linguistics, sociology and performance studies – and employing case studies from a range of practices – the essays presented here combine to form a unique interdisciplinary exploration of the functions of repetition in contemporary culture.
Table of Contents
| Section Title | Page | Action | Price |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cover | Cover | ||
| Half Title | i | ||
| Title | iii | ||
| Copyright | iv | ||
| Contents | v | ||
| Persisting Forever: Introducing Repetition | 1 | ||
| Chapter 1: Of Secret Signals, Absent Masters and the Trembling of the Contours: Walter Benjamin, Yvonne Rainer and the Repeatability of Gesture | 15 | ||
| Chapter 2: All the Home’s a Stage: Uncanny Encounters Between Auditorium and Oikos | 33 | ||
| Chapter 3: Repetition as Technology of the Numinous in Performance: The Artist Is Present by Marina Abramović | 63 | ||
| Chapter 4: When Is a Joke not a Joke? Reading (and Re-reading) Stewart Lee’s ‘The Rap Singers’ | 81 | ||
| Chapter 5: The Crying Channel | 99 | ||
| Chapter 6: The Cyclical Pleasures and Deaths of Symbolization: How to Become a Cupcake/The Famous’ Adaptation of Frankenstein | 117 | ||
| Chapter 7: A Pointless Pastime? Early Nineteenth-Century Pin-Prick Imagery | 133 | ||
| Chapter 8: Repeated Acts of Intimacy and Harm in Andrea Brady’s Mutability: Scripts for Infancy | 149 | ||
| Chapter 9: ‘I Was Not HEARD’: Trauma and Articulation in the Poetry of Geraldine Monk | 167 | ||
| Chapter 10: Déjà-vu, Doubles and Dread: The Uncanny and Christopher Smith’s Triangle | 181 | ||
| Chapter 11: Farewell to Farewell: Impossible Endings and Unfinished Finitudes | 195 | ||
| Afterword: Repetition or Recognition? | 211 | ||
| Notes on Contributors | 219 | ||
| Index | 223 | ||
| Back Cover | Back Cover |