Oil and Modern World Dramas: From Petro-Mania to Petro-Melancholia

ISBN-13: 9780367682040 / Angielski / Twarda / 2023 / 432 str.

Alireza Fakhrkonandeh

Opis

The first to focus on the (re-)presentations of oil in dramatic literature, theatre and performance, Oil and Modern World Dramas is a pioneering volume in the emerging field of Oil Literatures and Cultures, and the more established field of World Literatures.

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O autorze

Alireza Fakhrkonandeh is Assistant Professor in Modern and Contemporary Drama and Literary Theory at the University of Southampton, UK. He has recently finished two books, titled Body and Event in Howard Barker’s Theatre of Catastrophe (2019) and Evental Ontology, Immanent Ethics and Affective Aesthetics in Howard Barker’s Drama (under review). He completed his PhD at Warwick University (2015; funded by WU). Fakhrkonandeh holds degrees in English Literature and Literary Theory (PhD), Continental Philosophy (MA), and Medical Humanities (PhD). His works have featured in various journals and books, including Symploke, Textual Practice, Comparative Drama, English Studies, JCDE, ANQ, The Edinburgh History of Reading (2020), and The Somaesthetics of City Life (2019). He is also a professional academic translator. He is the sole authorized translator of Howard Barker’s works into Persian.