Mimesis, Masochism, &MimeThe Politics of Theatricality inContemporary French Thought

Edited byTimothy Murray

Ann Arbor

THE UNIVERSITY or MICHIGAN PRESS

Contents

Timothy MurrayIntroduction: The Mise-en-Scene of the Cultural I 1

Part i Mimesis ImposedMachineries of Representation I 27

Helene CixousHors Cadre Interview I 29

Jacques DerridaThe Theater of Cruelty and the Closure of Representation I 40

Luce IrigarayThe Stage Setup I 63

Rene GirardFrom Mimetic Desire to the Monstrous Double I 87

Part 2 Tragedy and MasochismScene as Other I 113

Louis MatinThe Utop ic Stage I 115

Andre GreenThe Psycho-analytic Reading of Tragedy I 136

Jean-Frangois LyotardThe Unconscious as Mise-en-Scene I 163

Philippe Lcuoue-LabartheTheatrum Analyticum I 175

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Part 3 Staging PowerTransgressive Alterity I 197

Louis AlthusserThe "Piccolo Teatro": Bertolazzi and BrechtNotes on aMaterialist Theater I 199

Michel FoucaultTheatrum Philosophicum I 216

Gilles DeleuzeOne Less Manifesto I 239

Frantz FanonAlgeria Unveiled I 259

Part 4 Like a FilmTheatrical Dispositions I 275

Julia KristevaModern Theater Does Not Take (a) Place I 277

Jean-Frangois LyotardThe Tooth, the Palm I 282

Josette FiralPerformance and Theatricality: The Subject Demystified I 289

Regis DurandThe Disposition of the Voice I 301

Contributors I 311

Index I 315