Antonin Artaud : a critical reader / edited by Edward Scheer.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Scheer, Edward, 1964-

Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

Artaud, Antonin.

Artaud, Antonin, 1896-1948.

Criticism and interpretation.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Penn Provenance:

Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)

Physical Description:

viii, 204 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Routledge, [2004]

Summary:

Challenges traditional perceptions of ArtaudExplores the circumstances of his life and work, including the relationship between his mental illness, drug addiction and creativity

Contents:

Introduction: on Antonin Artaud

a beginner's guide to cruelty

On biography: madness and language

From Conversations: The Autobiography of Surrealism / Andre Breton, Andre Parinaud

'Homage to Antonin Artaud' / Andre Breton

From 'Surrealism from day to day' / Georges Batailles

From an interview with Jacques Latremoliere / Sylvere Lotringer

'Thirteenth series of the schizophrenic and the little girl' / Gilles Deleuze

Theatre: acts and representations

From 'The theatre of cruelty and the closure of representation' / Jacques Derrida

From 'Antonin Artaud and the impossible theatre: the legacy of the theatre of cruelty' / Helga Finter

'He wasn't entirely himself' / Jerzy Grotowski

'The plague and its powers in Artaudian theatre' / Jane Goodall

From 'The dubious spectacle of collective identity' / Herbert Blau

From 'Approaching Artaud' / Susan Sontag

'Artaud, defecation and birth' / Leo Bersani

On writing and fine arts

'Artaud' / Maurice Blanchot

From 'The subject in process' / Julia Kristeva

From 'To unsense the subjectile' / Jacques Derrida

From 'Production of reality or hunger for the impossible?' / Umberto Artioli

Beyond words: on film and radio

'K' / Allen S. Weiss

'The death of paper, part two: Artaud's sound system' / Denis Hollier

From 'Voice devoured: Artaud and Borges on dubbing' / Mikhail Yampolsky

'Cinemas of cruelty?' / Francis Vanoye.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 192-197) and index.

ISBN:

0415282551

9780415282550

0415282543

9780415282543

OCLC:

51818827

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