Artaud and His Doubles

Name: Artaud and His Doubles
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ISBN: 9780472035151

ISBN-10: 0472035150

ISBN-13: 9780472035151

Edition: 2012

Authors: Kimberly Jannarone

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Artaud and His Doublesis a radical re-thinking of one of the most influential theater figures of the twentieth century. Placing Artaud's writing within the specific context of European political, theatrical, and intellectual history, the book reveals Artaud's affinities with a disturbing array of anti-intellectual and reactionary writers and artists whose ranks swelled catastrophically between the wars in Western Europe.Kimberly Jannarone shows that Artaud's work reveals two sets of doubles: one, a body of peculiarly persistent received interpretations from the American experimental theater and French post-structuralist readings of the 1960s; and, two, a darker set of doubles---those of…

Book details

List price: $30.00
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Publication date: 6/26/2012
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 272
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 0.946
Language: English



A Note on the Texts and Translations Used


Introduction: The Uses and Abuses of Antonin Artaud


Uses and Abuses


The Suffering of Antonin Artaud


Translation and Revolution


French Resistance


Artaud in Context


Beyond Poï¿½te Maudit



The Fight against Civilization; or, The Rebirth of Tragedy



Invocation of the Plague


Nouveau mal du siï¿½cle


The Residues of War


"The Future of the World"



Reactionary Modern


The Controversions of the Counter


Enlightenment


Anywhere Out of This World


Irrational Affinities



Audience, Mass, Crowd



The Avant-Garde and the Audience


The Crisis of Bourgeois Theater


The Avant-Garde and the Audience


Immersion


Agitation


The Theater of Cruelty and Conceptions of the Audience



Theaters for the Masses


Working on the Masses


Mythical, Total, Real



Crowds and Cruelty


Crowd Feeling in the Theater of Cruelty


The Nerve Meter



Visions of Power



The Artist of the Theater


The Rise of the Director


Artistic Power in the Jarry Theater


The Direction of Menace



Controlling Forces


Directing The Cenci


Concentrating Control


Power by Charisma


Conclusion: Longing for Nothingness


Notes


Selected bibliography


Index