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1 online resource (1 online resource (xiv, 253 pages) |
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Theater: theory/text/performance |
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Theater--theory/text/performance.
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| 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 |
| 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 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 233-241) and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Artaud, Antonin, 1896-1948 -- Knowledge -- Performing arts
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Artaud, Antonin, 1896-1948 -- Criticism and interpretation
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| SUBJECT |
Artaud, Antonin, 1896-1948 fast |
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Artaud, Antonin 1896-1948 gnd |
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Cruelty in literature.
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Drama -- History and criticism -- Theory, etc
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Experimental theater -- France -- History -- 20th century
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- French.
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PERFORMING ARTS -- Theater -- History & Criticism.
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Cruelty in literature
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Experimental theater
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Performing arts
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Theatertheorie
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Romance Literatures.
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Languages & Literatures.
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French Literature.
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Experimentteater -- historia.
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France
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780472027941 |
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0472027948 |
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