Theatricality Beyond Disciplines

Häftad, Engelska, 2025

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This book expands on theories of "theatricality" in French and critical studies, adopting a transdisciplinary approach that reaches beyond performance studies into poetry, media technology, translation, and psychoanalytic theory. Building on Artaud’s concept of theatre as a "plague"—an unpredictable, cataclysmic, and contagious force that disrupts power structures and knowledge—the book challenges Aristotelian norms of theatre as a medium of "healing" and "teaching." Instead, theatricality emerges as a force of radical disruption, what Artaud called "the return of the repressed," demanding openness to otherness. The chapters present theatricality as primarily aural rather than visual, inciting "paranoiac listening," invoking unretrievable "primal scenes," and allowing unconscious "psychic" contamination. "Theatricality" is explored through works by Artaud, Genet, Novarina, and Koltès, but also Freud, Barthes, Kristeva, Girard, and Derrida. Each writer challenges the premises of their own artistic genres and fields of study, questioning binary systems like artistic production versus theoretical articulation, the technological versus the natural, and art versus life. As shown, these binaries underpin mechanisms of repression, sacrificial violence, and the exclusion of the voiceless other. The book assigns a generative function to traditionally maligned notions like unintelligibility, madness, marginality, contagion, and criminality.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2025-11-17
Mått170 x 244 x 14 mm
Vikt566 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor216
FörlagIntellect
ISBN9781835951736

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Introduction: Theatricality, the Pandemic, & the Scapegoat Theatricality & the Concept Theatricality & the Metaphor Framing Theatricality Theatricality & New Media Theatricality & the Pandemic Theatricality & Pharmakos Theatricality & Festivals Theatricality & the Abject Chapter 1: Artaud’s Contagious Cries: Virtuality as Aurality The Viceroy’s Dream Aurality in the Age of New Media Chapter 2: Secular Prayers: Jean Genet Genet’s “The Criminal Child” Writing Death: Suitcases, Circus, & Cemeteries Chapter 3: The Stage of the Infant Tongue: Mimesis, Psychoanalysis, & the Avant-Garde The Split Scene of Mimesis Sigmund Freud: The ‘Psychopathic’ Theater The “Other Scene” vs. the “Primal Scene” Beyond Neurosis and into the ‘Barbaric’ Valère Novarina: Beyond the “Primal Scene” Chapter 4: Monstrous Tongues: On Foreignness in the Theater of Bernard-Marie KoltèsThe Drive to Become ‘Other’: Life as Text Speaking ‘Foreign’: Monstruous Monologues Citing the Silent Tongue: “The Night Just Before the Forests”Language As Skin: “In the Solitude of Cotton Fields” Chapter 5: The End of “Theory” is Only its Beginning: of “Theatricality” in Jacques Derrida’s CircumfessionPneuma: Burnt Signification The HypertextLearned Ignorance La Langue crue & The “Labor of Theory” Afterword