Literary Worlds and Deleuze

Expression as Mimesis and Event

Zornitsa Dimitrova

Literary Worlds and Deleuze contributes to debates on mimesis by offering an ‘expressionist’ take on the matter of the generation of literary worlds in drama. In examining postdramatic plays by Sarah Kane, Martin Crimp, Caryl Churchill, and Laura Wade, the book outlines a dynamic ontology of mimesis. Rather than pertaining to a static ontology of ‘being’, expressionist mimesis is generative and renews itself constantly without arriving at an entelechial end. In exploring the fluxional field of forces and relations that underlie the order of representation, expressionist mimesis is well suited to account for the ontologically uncertain realities of postdramatic theatre. The concepts of ‘expression’ and ‘the event of sense’ (Gilles Deleuze) become part of a generative model that incorporates pre-linguistic and supra-conceptual constituents within the genesis of representation.

Lexington Books

Pages: 246 • Trim: 6 x 9

978-1-4985-4437-5 • Hardback • December 2016 • $105.00 • (£81.00)

978-1-4985-4438-2 • eBook • December 2016 • $99.50 • (£77.00)

Subjects: Performing Arts / Theater / General, Literary Criticism / General, Performing Arts / General

Literary Worlds and Deleuze

Expression as Mimesis and Event

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Literary Worlds and Deleuze contributes to debates on mimesis by offering an ‘expressionist’ take on the matter of the generation of literary worlds in drama. In examining postdramatic plays by Sarah Kane, Martin Crimp, Caryl Churchill, and Laura Wade, the book outlines a dynamic ontology of mimesis. Rather than pertaining to a static ontology of ‘being’, expressionist mimesis is generative and renews itself constantly without arriving at an entelechial end. In exploring the fluxional field of forces and relations that underlie the order of representation, expressionist mimesis is well suited to account for the ontologically uncertain realities of postdramatic theatre. The concepts of ‘expression’ and ‘the event of sense’ (Gilles Deleuze) become part of a generative model that incorporates pre-linguistic and supra-conceptual constituents within the genesis of representation.

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Lexington Books

Pages: 246 • Trim: 6 x 9

978-1-4985-4437-5 • Hardback • December 2016 • $105.00 • (£81.00)

978-1-4985-4438-2 • eBook • December 2016 • $99.50 • (£77.00)

Subjects: Performing Arts / Theater / General, Literary Criticism / General, Performing Arts / General

Author

Zornitsa Dimitrova received her doctorate in English Literature from the University of Münster and has published articles in Deleuze Studies, New Theatre Quarterly, and The Journal of Dramatic Theory and Criticism.

Table of Contents

Introduction
Chapter I. The Reification of Expression and the Emergence of Sense
Chapter II. Transpositions. From Expression to Sense
Chapter III. Words and Worlds in a Literary Machine
Chapter IV. Machines of Movement
Chapter V. Machines Producing Groundlessness
Chapter VI. Machines That Make Individuals
Conclusion

Literary Worlds and Deleuze

Expression as Mimesis and Event

Zornitsa Dimitrova

Literary Worlds and Deleuze

Expression as Mimesis and Event

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