Most readers know Antonin Artaud as a theorist of the theatre and as a playwright, director and actor manqué. Now, John C. Stout’s highly original study installs Artaud as a writer and theorist of biography.
In 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 (for example, 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 focusses 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. With this research John C. Stout has added considerably to our understanding of Artaud.
His book will be much appreciated by theatre scholars, Artaud specialists, Freudians, Lacanians and both theorists and practitioners of life writing.
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- Bibliography, etc. Note
- Includes bibliographical references and index
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- CaOOCEL
- Dewey Decimal Classification Number
- 848/.91209
- Dewey Decimal Edition Number
- 20
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- Issued as part of the desLibris books collection
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- 0889202494 9780889205918
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- PQ2601.R677
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- Z816 1996eb
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- 1 electronic text (ix, 134 p.)
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- Canada
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Table of Contents
- Contents 6
- Preface 8
- Acknowledgments 10
- Introduction 12
- Artaud's Textual Alter Egos: Some Preliminary Facts 16
- Family Romances: Le Moine, Héliogabale, Les Cenci 27
- The Portrait 30
- A Note on Theatre 31
- Notes 32
- ONE: "Mon ami, ma chimère...": Early Prose Poems on Uccello and Abélard 34
- Vasari's Biographical Sketch of Uccello 35
- Marcel Schwob's "Paolo Uccello, peintre" 37
- "Paul les Oiseaux, ou la place de l'amour" 40
- "Uccello le poil" 46
- "Héloïse et Abélard" 49
- "Le clair Abélard" 53
- Notes 56
- TWO: Beneath the Monk's Cowl/Sous l'habit du moine: On Artaud's "Copy" of M.G. Lewis' The Monk 58
- Notes 68
- THREE: Modernist Family Romance: The Rhetoric of Héliogabale 70
- Repetition and Family Romance 72
- History: The Matriarchal Era Revisited, The Historian's Tale Revised 76
- The Language of the Origin: Rhetoric and Structure of Héliogabale 81
- Notes 93
- FOUR: The Drama of Desire against Itself: Les Cenci 94
- Dramas Affiliated to Les Cenci: Seneca, Ford, Van Den Leyden 96
- Three Nineteenth-Century Versions of Les Cenci 103
- Artaud's Les Cenci: Desire against Itself 109
- Notes 114
- FIVE: Self-Portraits at Rodez and Ivry 116
- The Precursor's Gaze: Van Gogh, ou le suicidé de la société 116
- Drawings at Rodez and Ivry 123
- Verbal Self-Portraits: "Ci-gît" and "Artaud le Mômo" 126
- Notes 130
- Conclusion 132
- Notes 134
- Bibliography 136
- Index 144
- A 144
- B 144
- C 144
- D 144
- E 144
- F 144
- G 144
- H 145
- J 145
- K 145
- L 145
- M 145
- N 145
- O 145
- P 145
- R 145
- S 145
- T 145
- U 145
- V 145
- W 145
- Z 145
