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Record Nr.

UNINA9910452884803321

Autore

De Vos Laurens <1978->

Titolo

Cruelty and desire in the modern theater [[electronic resource]] : Antonin Artaud, Sarah Kane, and Samuel Beckett / / Laurens De Vos

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Lanham, Md., : Fairleigh Dickinson University Press

Plymouth, England, : Co-published with Rowman & Littlefield Pub. Group, c2011

ISBN

1-61147-045-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (257 p.)

Disciplina

822/.9109353

Soggetti

English drama - 20th century - History and criticism

English drama - French influences

Cruelty in literature

Psychoanalysis and literature

Desire in literature

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

CRUELTY AND DESIRE IN THE MODERN THEATER; Contents; Acknowledgments; A Note on Translation; Introduction; 1. The Inner World of Antonin Artaud; 2. Madly in Love: Sarah Kane; 3. Neither the Voice, Nor the Void: Samuel Beckett; Epilogue: Toward a Corporeal Theater; Notes; References; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Departing from a refreshing look at the ideas of Antonin Artaud, this book provides a thorough analysis of how both Sarah Kane and Samuel Beckett are indebted to his legacy. In juxtaposing these playwrights, De Vos minutely points out how both in their own way struggle with coming to terms with Artaud. A key concept in Lacanian psychoanalytic theories, desire lies at the root of the Theatre of Cruelty; Kane and Beckett prove that desire and cruelty are inextricably linked to one another, but that they appear in radically different disguises. Relying on Kane and Beckett, this book not only shed