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200 10$aCruelty and desire in the modern theater $eAntonin Artaud, Sarah Kane, and Samuel Beckett /$fLaurens De Vos
205   $a1st ed.
210   $aLanham, Md. $cFairleigh Dickinson University Press ;$aPlymouth, England $cCo-published with Rowman & Littlefield Pub. Group$dc2011
215   $a1 online resource (257 p.)
300   $aDescription based upon print version of record.
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320   $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
327   $aCRUELTY 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
330   $aDeparting 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
606   $aEnglish drama$y20th century$xHistory and criticism
606   $aEnglish drama$xFrench influences
606   $aCruelty in literature
606   $aPsychoanalysis and literature
606   $aDesire in literature
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