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.

Book Information
ISBN 9781498544375
Author Zornitsa Dimitrova
Format Hardback
Page Count 246
Imprint Lexington Books
Publisher Lexington Books
Weight(grams) 544g