Artaud and his doubles / Kimberly Jannarone.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Jannarone, Kimberly.

Contributor:

Michigan Publishing (University of Michigan), publisher.

Series:

Theater--text/theory/performance.

Theater: theory/text/performance

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

Artaud, Antonin.

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

Cruelty in literature.

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

Drama.

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

Experimental theater.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (272 p.)

Edition:

1st pbk. ed.

Place of Publication:

Ann Arbor, Mich. : University of Michigan Press, c2011.

Language Note:

English

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 accepted familiar 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 his productions--I dug into the archives to research Artaud's theatrical practice.

Contents:

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 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:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references (p. 233-241) and index.

Description based on information from the publisher.

ISBN:

9786613721815

9781280880506

1280880503

9780472027941

0472027948

OCLC:

802057630