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Artaud and the Gnostic Drama

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In Artaud and the Gnostic Drama, Jane Goodall offers a reappraisal of the importance of Antonin Artaud, and examines the intricate parallels between his heretical dramaturgy and the heresies of ancient Gnosticism.

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In Artaud and the Gnostic Drama, Jane Goodall offers a reappraisal of the importance of Antonin Artaud, and examines the intricate parallels between his heretical dramaturgy and the heresies of ancient Gnosticism.

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In Artaud and the Gnostic Drama, Jane Goodall offers a reappraisal of the importance of Antonin Artaud, and examines the intricate parallels between his heretical dramaturgy and the heresies of ancient Gnosticism.

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A Note on Citations

IntroductIon: The Gnostic Drama

I The Mise-en-scène

II The Point of Destruction

III The Alien Protagonist

IV The Theatre of Cruelty

V Voyaging into Gnosis

VI Houses of Correction

VII To Have Done ...

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In Artaud and the Gnostic Drama, Jane Goodall offers a reappraisal of the importance of Antonin Artaud (1896–1948), mythologised as an icon of failure and madness, and examines the intricate parallels between his heretical dramaturgy and the heresies of ancient Gnosticism. The book situates Artaud, as the most extravagant of heretics, in company with the Gnostics whose speculations served to define heresy in the beginnings of the Christian tradition. Artaud subscribed to the Gnostic idea that the sensible world was created by a demiurge who was ‘imperfect, possibly evil and depraved.’ His cosmology is inherently dramatic, setting creature against creator, force against form, matter against spirit, pious knowledge against heretical gnosis. Jane Goodall argues that major post-structuralist critics such as Derrida, Deleuze, and Foucault, who have enlisted Artaud in their own anti-orthodoxies, have refused to pay attention to the terms of his own heresy. In this refusal, they display an anxiety towards the gnostic drama and its heresies, which mount an assault that may be more powerful than their own upon the founding tenets of western thought.


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