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Antonin Artaud's Writing Bodies (Hardcover)
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Antonin Artaud's Writing Bodies (Hardcover)
Series: Oxford Modern Languages and Literature Monographs
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Antonin Artaud (1896-1948), perhaps best known as a dramatic
theorist, is an important but extremely difficult writer. This book
studies the development of his thinking, from the early texts of
the 1920s through to the acclaimed but lesser known 1940s writings,
on such issues as the body, theology, language, identity and the
search for an elusive and unsayable self-presence, and then uses
this as a framework in which to read his late texts. New attention
is paid to the processes by which his texts generate meanings, the
logics that hold these meanings together, and the internal
contradictions of the late poetry. This allows a new picture to
emerge that accounts for the coherent if unequal development of his
ideas as well as the drive towards systematization to be found in
even his most opaque writings. By returning to the texts and
focusing on the specific terms of Artaud's writing, as well as
their gleeful resourcefulness and ludicity, it is argued that
Artaud needs to be considered not as a contestatory psychotic but
as a writer of the first magnitude.
Accessible to both scholar and newcomer, this illuminating and
original study will refocus critical thought on both the
development of Artaud's thinking and the significance of his
oft-neglected later work.
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