| Record Type: |
Electronic resources
: monographic
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| Author: |
JannaroneKimberly, |
| Secondary Intellectual Responsibility: |
Project Muse |
| Place of Publication: |
Ann Arbor, Mich. |
| Published: |
University of Michigan Press; |
| Year of Publication: |
c2010 |
| Description: |
1 online resource (xiv, 253 p). |
| Series: |
Theater: theory/text/performance |
| Subject: |
Cruelty in literature - |
| Subject: |
Drama - History and criticism - |
| Subject: |
Experimental theater - History - France - 20th century - |
| Personal Subject: |
Artaud - Antonin - Knowledge - |
| Personal Subject: |
Artaud - Antonin - Criticism and interpretation - |
| Online resource: |
http://muse.jhu.edu/books/9780472027941/ |
| Notes: |
Issued as part of UPCC book collections on Project MUSE |
| Summary: |
This is an unlooked-for project. Like many others, I first saw Artaud through the filters of American experimental theater and post-structuralism. My earliest work on Artaud began from acceptedfamiliar premises, largely established in the 1960s: Artaud as prophet, madman, genius,was the thing to study; his significance lay in his status as an inspirational figure manifesting a largely ahistorical impulse; his denunciation of civilization's discontents implied a progressive critique. My research led me in different directions, however. Fueled by a desire to really read Artaud's works closely especially his early writing and hisproductions--I dug into the archives to research Artaud's theatrical practice |
| ISBN: |
9780472027941electronic bk. |
| ISBN: |
9780472035151pbk. |
| Content Note: |
The fight against civilization; or, the rebirth of tragedy. Invocation of the plague : nouveau mal du siecle 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 inthe theater of cruelty the nerve meter -- Visions of power. The artist of the theater : the rise ofthe 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 |