Artaud and His Doubles

Contents

contents A Note on the Texts and Translations Used xvii introduction : The Uses and Abuses of Antonin Artaud 1 Uses and Abuses—The Suffering of Antonin Artaud— Translation and Revolution—French Resistance— Artaud in Context—Beyond Poète Maudit section i : The Fight against Civilization; or, The Rebirth of Tragedy chapter 1 : Invocation of the Plague 31 Nouveau mal du siècle—The Residues of War— “The Future of the World” chapter 2 : Reactionary Modern 50 The Controversions of the Counter-Enlightenment— Anywhere Out of This World—Irrational Affinities section ii : Audience, Mass, Crowd chapter 3 : The Avant-Garde and the Audience 75 The Crisis of Bourgeois Theater—The Avant-Garde and the Audience—Immersion—Agitation—The Theater of Cruelty and Conceptions of the Audience chapter 4 : Theaters for the Masses 96 Working on the Masses—Mythical, Total, Real chapter 5 : Crowds and Cruelty 116 Crowd Feeling in the Theater of Cruelty—The Nerve Meter section iii : Visions of Power chapter 6 : The Artist of the Theater 133 The Rise of the Director—Artistic Power in the Jarry Theater— The Direction of Menace chapter 7 : Controlling Forces 159 Directing The Cenci—Concentrating Control— Power by Charisma conclusion : Longing for Nothingness 189 notes 201 selected bibliography 233 index 243 ...