Download or read book Performing Bodies in Pain written by M. Carlson and published by Springer. This book was released on 2010-08-16 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This text analyzes the cultural work of spectacular suffering in contemporary discourse and late-medieval France, reading recent dramatizations of torture and performances of self-mutilating conceptual art against late-medieval saint plays.