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…mehr
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.
John C. Stout teaches French at McMaster University. In addition to his work on Antonin Artaud, he has published articles on twentieth-century French poetry and literacy theory. He is currently writing a book on les poètes de l'objet, including Pierre Reverdy, Francis Ponge, Jean Follain, Guillevic and Jean Tortel.
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Table of Contents for Antonin Artaud's Alternate Genealogies: Self-Portraits and Family Romances by John C. Scott Preface Acknowledgments Introduction Artaud's Textual Alter Egos: Some Preliminary Facts Family Romances: Le Moine, Héliogabale, Les Cenci The Portrait A Note on Theatre Notes One: "Mon ami, ma chimère...": Early Prose Poems on Uccello and Abélard Vasari's Biographical Sketch of Uccello Marcel Schwob's "Paolo Uccello, peintre" "Paul les Oiseaux, ou la place de l'amour" "Uccello le poil" "Héloïse et Abélard" "Le clair Abélard" Notes Two: Beneath the Monk's Cowl/Sous l'habit du moine: On Artaud's "Copy" of M.G. Lewis' The Monk Notes Three: Modernist Family Romance: The Rhetoric of Héliogabale Repetition and Family Romance History: The Matriarchal Era Revisited, The Historian's Tale Revised The Language of the Origin: Rhetoric and Structure of Héliogabale Notes Four: The Drama of Desire against Itself: Les Cenci Dramas Affiliated to Les Cenci: Seneca, Ford, Van Den Leyden Three Nineteenth-Century Versions of Les Cenci Artaud's Les Cenci: Desire against Itself Notes Five: Self-Portraits at Rodez and Ivry The Precursor's Gaze: Van Gogh, ou le suicidé de la société Drawings at Rodez and Ivry Verbal Self-Portraits: "Ci-gît" and "Aratud le Môto" Notes Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index
Table of Contents for Antonin Artaud's Alternate Genealogies: Self-Portraits and Family Romances by John C. Scott Preface Acknowledgments Introduction Artaud's Textual Alter Egos: Some Preliminary Facts Family Romances: Le Moine, Héliogabale, Les Cenci The Portrait A Note on Theatre Notes One: "Mon ami, ma chimère...": Early Prose Poems on Uccello and Abélard Vasari's Biographical Sketch of Uccello Marcel Schwob's "Paolo Uccello, peintre" "Paul les Oiseaux, ou la place de l'amour" "Uccello le poil" "Héloïse et Abélard" "Le clair Abélard" Notes Two: Beneath the Monk's Cowl/Sous l'habit du moine: On Artaud's "Copy" of M.G. Lewis' The Monk Notes Three: Modernist Family Romance: The Rhetoric of Héliogabale Repetition and Family Romance History: The Matriarchal Era Revisited, The Historian's Tale Revised The Language of the Origin: Rhetoric and Structure of Héliogabale Notes Four: The Drama of Desire against Itself: Les Cenci Dramas Affiliated to Les Cenci: Seneca, Ford, Van Den Leyden Three Nineteenth-Century Versions of Les Cenci Artaud's Les Cenci: Desire against Itself Notes Five: Self-Portraits at Rodez and Ivry The Precursor's Gaze: Van Gogh, ou le suicidé de la société Drawings at Rodez and Ivry Verbal Self-Portraits: "Ci-gît" and "Aratud le Môto" Notes Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index
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