Anna Harpin
Biographic Data
| ID | 2072419 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Anna Harpin |
| GIVEN NAMES | Anna |
| FAMILY NAME | Harpin |
| SIGNATURE | HARPIN A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Exeter |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 5 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Concerning Consequences
December 01 2017 Concerning Consequences: Studies in Art, Destruction, and Trauma Concerning Consequences: Studies in Art, Destruction, and Trauma. By KristineStiles. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2016; 504 pp.; illustrations. $100.00 cloth, $39.00 paper, e-book available. Anna Harpin Anna Harpin Anna Harpin is Associate Professor of Theatre and Performance Studies at the University of Warwick. Her monograph, Beyond Illness: Madness, Art,…
Revisiting the Puzzle Factory
The multivalent ways in which psychiatric asylum history is performed in the UK are examined and the contribution such works make to the social history of madness is considered. Cultural representations of the past form a central part of the meanings of shared public histories, rendering the wreckage of history tangible within representational frames. The unofficial, even secret, histories of asylum life are investigated in particular and the pol…
The lives of our mad mothers
This paper investigates representations of aging in contemporary British and Irish theatre. The turn towards portraits of female, as opposed to male, aging in theatre, popular television comedy, and literature is notable. It is the purpose of this paper, therefore, to excavate the politics that lie beneath this cultural development. While, of course, older women have long populated the stage, it is the contention of this article that it is recent…
Land of hope and glory
Steve Waters has suggested that climate change can be understood through the optic of classical tragedy. Building on Waters's interpretative frame, then, this article asserts that British society—a protagonist in the environmental drama—has authored its own downfall through destructive acts that were of our own making, though not necessarily our fault. Moreover, as we repeat, with the alacrity of the doomed, our fatal flaw—the catastrophe, it wou…
Marginal experiments
This article juxtaposes the recent work of Peter Brook with a Bristol-based mental health service-user collective – Stepping Out Theatre Company. Informed by field-work with the company, this chapter explores the aesthetic and political relationship between professional, experimental theatre work and community-based performance practice. Drawing new material together for the first time, this article examines the current relationship between seemi…
Revisiting the Puzzle Factory
The multivalent ways in which psychiatric asylum history is performed in the UK are examined and the contribution such works make to the social history of madness is considered. Cultural representations of the past form a central part of the meanings of shared public histories, rendering the wreckage of history tangible within representational frames. The unofficial, even secret, histories of asylum life are investigated in particular and the pol…
Marginal experiments
This article juxtaposes the recent work of Peter Brook with a Bristol-based mental health service-user collective – Stepping Out Theatre Company. Informed by field-work with the company, this chapter explores the aesthetic and political relationship between professional, experimental theatre work and community-based performance practice. Drawing new material together for the first time, this article examines the current relationship between seemi…
Land of hope and glory
Steve Waters has suggested that climate change can be understood through the optic of classical tragedy. Building on Waters's interpretative frame, then, this article asserts that British society—a protagonist in the environmental drama—has authored its own downfall through destructive acts that were of our own making, though not necessarily our fault. Moreover, as we repeat, with the alacrity of the doomed, our fatal flaw—the catastrophe, it wou…
The lives of our mad mothers
This paper investigates representations of aging in contemporary British and Irish theatre. The turn towards portraits of female, as opposed to male, aging in theatre, popular television comedy, and literature is notable. It is the purpose of this paper, therefore, to excavate the politics that lie beneath this cultural development. While, of course, older women have long populated the stage, it is the contention of this article that it is recent…
Revisiting the Puzzle Factory
The multivalent ways in which psychiatric asylum history is performed in the UK are examined and the contribution such works make to the social history of madness is considered. Cultural representations of the past form a central part of the meanings of shared public histories, rendering the wreckage of history tangible within representational frames. The unofficial, even secret, histories of asylum life are investigated in particular and the pol…
Concerning Consequences
December 01 2017 Concerning Consequences: Studies in Art, Destruction, and Trauma Concerning Consequences: Studies in Art, Destruction, and Trauma. By KristineStiles. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2016; 504 pp.; illustrations. $100.00 cloth, $39.00 paper, e-book available. Anna Harpin Anna Harpin Anna Harpin is Associate Professor of Theatre and Performance Studies at the University of Warwick. Her monograph, Beyond Illness: Madness, Art,…
Art (5 works) · Law (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · Politics (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Art history (3 works) · Aesthetics (2 works) · Art Therapy and Mental Health (2 works) · Drama (2 works) · History (2 works)