David Kilpatrick

Writing with Blood: the Sacrificial Dramatist As Tragic Man David Kilpatrick

Tragic writing emerges as a representation of a sacrificial crisis that calls into question the human relation to the divine. The process of dramatization that exposes this crisis places the subject and language at risk. Writing with Blood explores the birth and death of the tragic subject in antiquity and the modernist reanimation of the sacrificial in Nietzsche, Bataille and Mishima. --- "An excellent piece of work. Very intelligent thinking about questions of the first importance." (William Haver)