Essays about: "Patrick Marber"

Found 1 essay containing the words Patrick Marber.

  1. 1. Presentations of Femininity in Patrick Marber's Closer

    University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för språk och litteraturer

    Author : Anna Olsson; [2014-02-07]
    Keywords : engelska; Closer; Patrick Marber; British theatre; Michel Foucault; gender; representations of femininity;

    Abstract : This essay explores the presentation of femininity in Patrick Marber's play Closer from perspectives borrowed from Michel Foucault and feminists inspired by post-structuralism and social constructivism. Foucault describes how self-policing subjects, or docile bodies, are created through the internalisation of dominant discourses in the performances of every-day life under the disciplinary powers of regulation, surveillance and classification. READ MORE