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ARTAUD AND THE GNOSTIC DRAMA by Jane Goodall – Limited Edition Hardcover -Import

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ARTAUD AND THE GNOSTIC DRAMA by Jane Goodall – Limited Edition Hardcover -Import

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Limited to 749 copies; bound in natural linen cloth stamped in black, textured black endpapers, and dust jacket. Super 8vo (270 × 180 mm), 272 pp, 14 colour and 2 black & white illustrations. Book is in new unread condition.

Published by Scarlet Imprint

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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.

This work was first published by the Clarendon Press, Oxford in 1994. The text has been lightly revised for this second edition, and is illustrated.

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