Artaud and his doubles / Kimberly Jannarone.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Jannarone, Kimberly.

Series:

Theater--theory/text/performance

Theater: theory/text/performance

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Artaud, Antonin, 1896-1948--Criticism and interpretation.

Artaud, Antonin.

Artaud, Antonin, 1896-1948--Knowledge and learning--Performing arts.

Artaud, Antonin, 1896-1948.

Performing arts.

Experimental theater--France--History--20th century.

Experimental theater.

Drama--History and criticism--Theory, etc.

Drama.

Cruelty in literature.

History.

Criticism and interpretation.

France.

Physical Description:

xiv, 253 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, [2010]

Contents:

The fight against civilization; or, the rebirth of tragedy. Invocation of the plague : nouveau mal du siècle 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:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780472117369

047211736X

OCLC:

617508974