Artaud and His Doubles (Theater: Theory/Text/Performance)
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| Rating | : | 4.82 (557 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0472035150 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 272 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-06-13 |
| Language | : | English |
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Cole, Bridgewater College, CHOICE - Highly Recommended. W. "Jannarone has written a remarkable book about Artaud and the Theatre of Cruelty This fascinating study should shake the foundations of Artaudian scholarship." -- S
Artaud and His Doubles will generate provocative new discussions about Artaud and fundamentally challenge the way we look at his work and ideas.. Artaud and His Doubles is a radical re-thinking of one of the most influential theater figures of the twentieth century. Placing Artaud's writing within the specific context of European political, theatrical, and intellectual history, the book reveals Artaud's affinities with a disturbing array of anti-intellectual and reactionary writers and artists whose ranks swelled catastrophically between the wars in Western Europe.Kimberly Jannarone shows that Artaud's work reveals two sets of doubles: one, a body of peculiarly persistent received interpretations from the American experimental theater and French post-structuralist readings of the 1960s; and, two, a darker set of doubles---those of Artaud's contemporaries who, in the tumultuous, alienated, and pessimistic atmosphere enveloping much of Europe after World War I, denounced the degradation of civilization, yearned for cosmic purification, and called for an e
This book is long overdue. Based on highly selective Tacitus This book is long overdue. Based on highly selective readings (or non-readings) that perpetuate the myth of art's humanitarian mission, generations of the theater practitioners and scholars have hailed Artaud as a friend of the grossly oppressed and neurotically alienated. That, Jannarone shows, is the 1960s talking. She corre. Fred Lewis said The voice of reason. Because of his fiery language and tormented life, scholars and theater people have long mistaken the wacky (and certifiably insane) Artaud for some kind of visionary. Well, he's not Jesus. In fact, as Jannarone shows in the first historicizing book on this seminal figure that I know of, he's a child of his times - which includ. G. Wilczynski said a terribly charismatic persona. Antonin Artaud: a terribly charismatic persona, whose real career started late, after his long journey through many avant-garde revolutions, continents and mental states, culminating in his long years suffering at hands of cruelly baffled doctors and equally mystified literary supporters.It is ironic that, in the state of phys