Vient de paraître:
The volume locates Crimp as a groundbreaking figure in literary and artistic traditions in the United Kingdom and beyond, all the while recognising that his output transcends categorisation and occupies a singular and distinctive space. Co-edited by Vicky Angelaki (Sweden), Élisabeth Angel-Perez (France) and Clara Escoda (Spain), three leading research experts in Martin Crimp Studies internationally, the volume additionally features contributions by a team of prominent academic authors whose individual work has also served to create and define this field across different literary, artistic and cultural contexts. A key feature of the book is a major new and extensive interview with Martin Crimp by Aleks Sierz, offering valuable elucidation of crucial aspects of Crimp’s writing and process.
Table of Contents
| Martin Crimp: Timeline of Work |
| Aleks Sierz |
| Preface |
| Vicky Angelaki, Élisabeth Angel-Perez and Clara Escoda |
| Three Attempted Acts (In Lieu of Introduction) |
| The Vanishing Point |
| Vicky Angelaki |
| Portrait of the Writer as an Author |
| Élisabeth Angel-Perez |
| Martin Crimp’s Women: Towards a Revolutionary Universality |
| Clara Escoda |
| 1. Martin Crimp – Addressing Today’s Challenges |
| ‘Sequences of Magic Rooms’: The Writer in His Own Words |
| Aleks Sierz and Martin Crimp |
| ‘What Use to Me Is a Rusting Spike?’: Gender Performativity and Fluidity of Desire in Martin Crimp’s When We Have Sufficiently Tortured Each Other (2019) |
| Clara Escoda |
| Environmental Justice and Human Rights: Martin Crimp’s Cruel and Tender and The Rest Will Be Familiar to You from Cinema |
| Vicky Angelaki |
| In the Nightmare of Neoliberalism: Happiness as a Neoliberal Tool of Control in Martin Crimp’s In the Republic of Happiness |
| Albert Méndez Panadés |
| 2. Martin Crimp – The Concept of Community
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| Martin Crimp in the Company of European Nobel Laureates Jon Fosse and Elfriede Jelinek: A Comparison |
| Mary Mazzilli |
| ‘I begin to wonder if the whole thing might not just possibly be endless’: Martin Crimp’s Aesthetic and Ethical Probing of the Dramatic Medium in Not One of These People |
| Aloysia Rousseau |
| The Wizard Behind the Curtain: The Writer and the Written in the Work of Martin Crimp |
| Liz Tomlin |
| 3. Martin Crimp – Found in Translation |
| Making Room for Music: Crimp’s Operatic Dramaturgy |
| Élisabeth Angel-Perez |
| Writing for Translation: Martin Crimp’s Invitation to Translate |
| Geraldine Brodie |
| Traces of Martin Crimp on the Italian Stage |
| Andrea Peghinelli |
| Martin Crimp: Millennial Challenge for the Greek Stage |
| Elizabeth Sakellaridou |

