Reassembling Pain, Reassembling the Reading of Fiction

Download or read book Reassembling Pain, Reassembling the Reading of Fiction written by Eric Baudner and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2021-01-17 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The present book deals with Sarah Kane’s dramatic text Cleansed to show a specific negotiation of violence, pain, life and death – one that is not necessarily causal or dichotomous. Instead, a new mode of reading, based on Bruno Latour’s take on Actor-Network-Theory, helps to make fictional worlds simultaneously intelligible in a mediate and in an immediate way. This results in an unprecedented understanding of how language can influence and modify ontological configurations. Eventually, this allows for a re-evaluation of political problems that occur in the 20th and 21st century.