Beyond the Flesh : Rethinking the Body through Phenomenology in Kane’s 4.48 Psychosis and Waltz’s Körper and noBody
Eger Journal of English Studies 2025 Hadeel Ramez Endewy
Drawing on Maurice Merleau-Ponty’s phenomenological framework of embodied perception, this paper examines Sarah Kane’s 4.48 Psychosis (2000) and Sasha Waltz’s Körper and noBody (early 2000s), focusing on how they destabilise the body’s ontological boundaries. By employing Merleau-Ponty’s concepts of the lived body, the study explores how both works challenge conventional binaries between...