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This essay looks at the parallels between Artaud’s (1958) Theatre of Cruelty and Timothy Speed Levitch’s (1998) Cruise through the lens of Derrida’s (1978) understanding of Artaud. The essay also engages Kristeva’s (1984) psychoanalytic framework for understanding the relation between language and subjectivity as an allied effort to address the same kind of ethical commitments and ineffable qualities expressed in Artaud’s Theatre of Cruelty. KeywordsArtaud, Derrida, Kristeva, Levitch, Theatre of Cruelty.

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Artaud Derrida Kristeva Levitch Theatre of Cruelty

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Artaud

(1958). The theater and its double. New York, NY: Grove Press.

Derrida

(1978). Writing and difference. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press.

Kristeva

(1984). Revolution in poetic language. New York, NY: Columbia University Press.

Miller

(1998). The cruise. Santa Monica, CA: Artisan Entertainment.

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