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Artaud and His Doubles
Kimberly JannaroneArtaud 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 ecstatic loss of the self. Artaud and His Doubles will generate provocative new discussions about Artaud and fundamentally challenge the way we look at his work and ideas.
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Cover
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Title
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Copyright
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Dedication
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Preface
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Acknowledgments
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Contents
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A Note on the Texts and Translations Used
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INTRODUCTION : The Uses and Abuses of Antonin Artaud
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Uses and Abuses
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The Suffering of Antonin Artaud
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Translation and Revolution
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French Resistance
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Artaud in Context
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Beyond Poète Maudit
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SECTION I : The Fight against Civilization; or, The Rebirth of Tragedy
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CHAPTER 1 : Invocation of the Plague
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Nouveau mal du siècle
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The Residues of War
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“The Future of the World”
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CHAPTER 2 : Reactionary Modern
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The Controversions of the Counter-Enlightenment
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Anywhere Out of This World
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Irrational Affinities
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SECTION II : Audience, Mass, Crowd
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CHAPTER 3 : The Avant-Garde and the Audience
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The Crisis of Bourgeois Theater
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The Avant-Garde and the Audience
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Immersion
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Agitation
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The Theater of Cruelty and Conceptions of the Audience
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CHAPTER 4 : Theaters for the Masses
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Working on the Masses
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Mythical, Total, Real
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CHAPTER 5 : Crowds and Cruelty
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Crowd Feeling in the Theater of Cruelty
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The Nerve Meter
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SECTION III : Visions of Power
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CHAPTER 6 : The Artist of the Theater
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The Rise of the Director
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Artistic Power in the Jarry Theater
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The Direction of Menace
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CHAPTER 7 : Controlling Forces
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Directing The Cenci
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Concentrating Control
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Power by Charisma
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CONCLUSION : Longing for Nothingness
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NOTES
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SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
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INDEX
- 978-0-472-11736-9 (hardcover)
- 978-0-472-03515-1 (paper)
- 978-0-472-02794-1 (ebook)