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Anti-Oedipus? Dada and surrealist theatre, 1916-35
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posted on 2023-06-08, 09:38 authored by Peter NichollsIn a sequel to his essay ‘Sexuality and Structure in Expressionist Theatre’ in NTQ26, Peter Nicholls here explores a very different set of developments in the French avant-garde drama of the period. Arguing that Dada and Surrealist theatre have a strongly marked ‘anti-oedipal’ tendency, he suggests that their polemics against the family and paternal law contrast with the increasing prominence given to Freud's masterplot in Expressionism. Peter Nicholls teaches English and American Literature at the University of Sussex: his publications include Ezra Pound: Politics, Economics, and Writing, and articles on postmodernism, contemporary poetry, and French cubism. His Modernisms: a Literary Guide will be published by Macmillan in 1992.
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New Theatre QuarterlyISSN
0266-464XPublisher
Cambridge University PressExternal DOI
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28Volume
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331-347Department affiliated with
- English Publications
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