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

By:

Stout, John Cameron

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text

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computer

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online resource

ISBN:

9780889205918
0889205914
1282233572
9781282233577
9786613811318
6613811319

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Antonin Artaud's alternate genealogies.DDC classification:

848/.91209 22

LOC classification:

PQ2601.R677 Z816 1996eb

Other classification:

18.25
IH 12641

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Contents:

1. "Mon ami, ma chimere ... ": Early Prose Poems on Uccello and Abelard -- 2. Beneath the Monk's Cowl/Sous l'habit du moine: On Artaud's "Copy" of M.G. Lewis' The Monk -- 3. Modernist Family Romance: The Rhetoric of Heliogabale -- 4. The Drama of Desire against Itself: Les Cenci -- 5. Self-Portraits at Rodez and Ivry.

Summary: In Antonin Artaud's 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, including 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 focuses 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.

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

In Antonin Artaud's 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, including 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 focuses 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.