Antonin Artaud's alternate genealogies : self-portraits and family romances / John C. Stout.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Stout, John Cameron.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

Artaud, Antonin.

French literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (145 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Other Title:

Alternate genealogies

Place of Publication:

Waterloo, Ont. : Wilfrid Laurier University Press, c1996.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Most readers know Antonin Artaud as a theorist of the theatre and as a playwright, director and actor manqué. Now, John C. Stout’s highly original study installs Artaud as a writer and theorist of biography. In Alternate Genealogies Stout analyzes two separate but interrelated preoccupations central to Artaud’s work: the self-portrait and the family romance. He shows how Artaud, in several important but relatively neglected texts, rewrites the life stories of historical and literary figures with whom he identifies (for example, Paolo Ucello, Abelard, Van Gogh and Shelley’s Francesco Cenci) in an attempt to reinvent himself through the image, or life, of another. Throughout the book Stout focusses on Artaud’s struggles to recover the sense of self that eludes him and to master the reproductive process by recreating the family in — and as — his own fantasies of it. With this research John C. Stout has added considerably to our understanding of Artaud. His book will be much appreciated by theatre scholars, Artaud specialists, Freudians, Lacanians and both theorists and practitioners of life writing.

Contents:

Front Matter

Contents

Preface

Acknowledgments

Introduction

"Mon ami, ma chimère...": Early Prose Poems on Uccello and Abèlard

Beneath the Monk's Cowl/ Sous I'habit du moine: On Artaud's "Copy" of M.G. Lewis' The Monk

Modernist Family Romance: The Rhetoric of Héliogabale

The Drama of Desire against Itself: Les Cenci

Self-Portraits at Rodez and Ivry

Conclusion

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references (p. 125-131) and index.

ISBN:

9786613811318

9781282233577

1282233572

9780889205918

0889205914

OCLC:

180704479