Martin Harries
Biographic Data
| ID | 3982055 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Martin Harries |
| GIVEN NAMES | Martin |
| FAMILY NAME | Harries |
| SIGNATURE | HARRIES M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Martin Harries teaches courses on theatre, modernism, and theory in the department of English at New York University. He is the author of Scare Quotes from Shakespeare: Marx, Keynes, and the Language of Reenchantment (Stanford University Press, 2000). His second book, Forgetting Lot's Wife: On Destructive Spectatorship, is forthcoming from Fordham University Press in early 2007. |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 9 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1995 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Audiences, Publics, Speech. A review of Adair Rounthwaite, Asking the Audience
Audiences, Publics, Speech. A review of Adair Rounthwaite, Asking the Audience:Participatory Art in 1980s New York Martin Harries (bio) Rounthwaite, Adair. Asking the Audience: Participatory Art in 1980s New York. U of Minnesota P, 2017. Audiences speak. This assumption is essential to the method and to the argument of Adair Rounthwaite's Asking the Audience: Participatory Art in 1980s New York, and around that assumption the book's considerable …
Introduction to “Comparative Radios”
Regarding the Pain of Rats
Animal presence unsettles practices of spectatorship and reframes assumptions about embodiment and affect in four differently exemplary animal performances, including one dating back to the 18th century. In all of them, the ethics of watching other animals, human or nonhuman, and the call for evaluation and judgment is complicated by recognition of the multiplicitous and mysterious nature of pain and pleasure
Zomboid! (review)
Books
Books
December 01 2005 Shakespeare and the Force of Modern Performance Shakespeare and the Force of Modern Performance. By WorthenW.B. Martin Harries Martin Harries Associate Professor of English at New York University Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Scholar Author and Article Information Martin Harries Associate Professor of English at New York University Online ISSN: 1531-4715 Print ISSN: 1054-2043 © 2004 Massachusetts Inst…
Richard Foreman and the Ends of an Avant-Garde
Foreman's recent productions at once rehearse and question some of the central projects of the twentieth-century avant-garde. Foreman engages the avant-garde faith in the political force of experimental practices that evoke psychic depth. Examining some of his theoretical manifestoes and two of his recent productions, Paradise Hotel (1999) and Now that Communism is Dead, My Life Feels Empty! (2001), this essay argues that Foreman's staged work in…
Forgetting Lot's Wife
Forgetting Lot’s Wife: Artaud, Spectatorship, and Catastrophe Martin Harries (bio) 1. Looking Back on Lot’s Wife As Lot’s wife glanced back, she turned into a pillar of salt. —Genesis 19.26 This punishment is resonant, and strangely opaque. Oddly, it forms part of a narrative that treats the possibility of bargaining with the Lord or with angels to escape punishment: Abraham dickers for the survival of the Cities of the Plain, and Lot himself arr…
Homo Alludens
Marx's preface in many ways recapitulates concerns of text it introduces. In Eighteenth Marx already declares that coup d'etat of Louis Bonaparte has formed the second edition [die zweite Auflage] of eighteenth Brumaire, that is, that it has been a repetition of coup of Napoleon I.2 This 1869 publication is then second edition of a study of a second edition. The emphasis on revision is important to Eighteenth Brumaire. The preface introduces noti…
Regarding the Pain of Rats
Animal presence unsettles practices of spectatorship and reframes assumptions about embodiment and affect in four differently exemplary animal performances, including one dating back to the 18th century. In all of them, the ethics of watching other animals, human or nonhuman, and the call for evaluation and judgment is complicated by recognition of the multiplicitous and mysterious nature of pain and pleasure
Homo Alludens
Marx's preface in many ways recapitulates concerns of text it introduces. In Eighteenth Marx already declares that coup d'etat of Louis Bonaparte has formed the second edition [die zweite Auflage] of eighteenth Brumaire, that is, that it has been a repetition of coup of Napoleon I.2 This 1869 publication is then second edition of a study of a second edition. The emphasis on revision is important to Eighteenth Brumaire. The preface introduces noti…
Homo Alludens
Marx's preface in many ways recapitulates concerns of text it introduces. In Eighteenth Marx already declares that coup d'etat of Louis Bonaparte has formed the second edition [die zweite Auflage] of eighteenth Brumaire, that is, that it has been a repetition of coup of Napoleon I.2 This 1869 publication is then second edition of a study of a second edition. The emphasis on revision is important to Eighteenth Brumaire. The preface introduces noti…
Forgetting Lot's Wife
Forgetting Lot’s Wife: Artaud, Spectatorship, and Catastrophe Martin Harries (bio) 1. Looking Back on Lot’s Wife As Lot’s wife glanced back, she turned into a pillar of salt. —Genesis 19.26 This punishment is resonant, and strangely opaque. Oddly, it forms part of a narrative that treats the possibility of bargaining with the Lord or with angels to escape punishment: Abraham dickers for the survival of the Cities of the Plain, and Lot himself arr…
Books
Books
December 01 2005 Shakespeare and the Force of Modern Performance Shakespeare and the Force of Modern Performance. By WorthenW.B. Martin Harries Martin Harries Associate Professor of English at New York University Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Scholar Author and Article Information Martin Harries Associate Professor of English at New York University Online ISSN: 1531-4715 Print ISSN: 1054-2043 © 2004 Massachusetts Inst…
Richard Foreman and the Ends of an Avant-Garde
Foreman's recent productions at once rehearse and question some of the central projects of the twentieth-century avant-garde. Foreman engages the avant-garde faith in the political force of experimental practices that evoke psychic depth. Examining some of his theoretical manifestoes and two of his recent productions, Paradise Hotel (1999) and Now that Communism is Dead, My Life Feels Empty! (2001), this essay argues that Foreman's staged work in…
Zomboid! (review)
Regarding the Pain of Rats
Animal presence unsettles practices of spectatorship and reframes assumptions about embodiment and affect in four differently exemplary animal performances, including one dating back to the 18th century. In all of them, the ethics of watching other animals, human or nonhuman, and the call for evaluation and judgment is complicated by recognition of the multiplicitous and mysterious nature of pain and pleasure
Introduction to “Comparative Radios”
Audiences, Publics, Speech. A review of Adair Rounthwaite, Asking the Audience
Audiences, Publics, Speech. A review of Adair Rounthwaite, Asking the Audience:Participatory Art in 1980s New York Martin Harries (bio) Rounthwaite, Adair. Asking the Audience: Participatory Art in 1980s New York. U of Minnesota P, 2017. Audiences speak. This assumption is essential to the method and to the argument of Adair Rounthwaite's Asking the Audience: Participatory Art in 1980s New York, and around that assumption the book's considerable …
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