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Main Author: Morfee, Adrian (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford Clarendon Press 2005
Series:Oxford modern languages and literature monographs
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Item Description:Includes bibliographical references (p. [221]-226) and index
Notes on Texts and Abbreviations; Introduction; 1. Painful Bodies of Thought; 2. Self-Presence, Thought, and Language; 3. Angelic Bodies, Demonic Bodies; 4. Creating Identity and Meaning; 5. Writing Doubles; 6. A God-Ridden Artaud; 7. A Simple Artaud; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index
This book studies the development of Artaud's thinking throughout his career on such issues as the body, theology, language, and identity. His late poetry is discussed in depth and new attention is paid to the verbal details of his writing and to the way he builds up his ideas. Artaud emerges as a man of ideas performing disturbing conceptual work, but needs to be considered not as a contestatory psychotic but as a writer of the first order. - ;Antonin Artaud (1896-1948), perhaps best known as a dramatic theorist, is an important but extremely difficult writer. This book studies the developmen
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (233 p.)
ISBN:0191535079
1435610083
9780191535079
9781435610088

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