Antonin Artaud's Writing Bodies |
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| Author:
| Morfee, Adrian |
| Series title: | Oxford Modern Languages and Literature Monographs |
| ISBN: | 978-0-19-153507-9 |
| Publication Date: | Jul 2005 |
| Publisher: | Oxford University Press
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| Imprint: | Clarendon Press |
| Book Format: | Ebook |
| List Price: | Contact Supplier contact
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Book Description:
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This book studies the development of Artaud's thinking throughout his career on such issues as the body, theology, language, and identity. His late poetry is discussed in depth and new attention is paid to the verbal details of his writing and to the way he builds up his ideas. Artaud emerges as a man of ideas performing disturbing conceptual work, but needs to be considered not as a contestatory psychotic but as a writer of the first order.
This book studies the development of Artaud's thinking throughout his career on such issues as the body, theology, language, and identity. His late poetry is discussed in depth and new attention is paid to the verbal details of his writing and to the way he builds up his ideas. Artaud emerges as a man of ideas performing disturbing conceptual work, but needs to be considered not as a contestatory psychotic but as a writer of the first order.