The book reveals how the fantastic is used in modern theatre as a manipulative device to encode the unspeakable and control audience response, challenging conventional readings of all authors who use the fantastic.

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"Who are the monsters in Jean Cocteau s Infernal Machine ? Eynat-Confino s absorbing study gives us all facets of this central theme of Cocteau s modern classic and the ways monstrosity relates to Cocteau s self image as homosexual and poet. A must read for readers interested in Cocteau, modern French theater, and gender and gay studies. " - John M Clum, Professor of Theater Studies and English Duke University and author of Still Acting Gay: Male Homosexuality in Modern Drama and Something for the Boys: Musical Theater and Gay Culture

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IRENE EYNAT-CONFINO is Associate Professor, Department of Theatre Studies, Tel-Aviv University, Israel.

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Book Title: On the Uses of the Fantastic in Modern Theatre
Book Subtitle: Cocteau, Oedipus, and the Monster
Authors: Irene Eynat-Confino
Series Title: Palgrave Studies in Theatre and Performance History
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230616967
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan New York
eBook Packages: Palgrave Literature & Performing Arts Collection, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Nature America Inc. 2008
Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-230-60821-4Published: 12 December 2008
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-37496-0Published: 09 November 2015
eBook ISBN: 978-0-230-61696-7Published: 24 November 2008
Series ISSN: 2947-5767
Series E-ISSN: 2947-5775
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VII, 198
Topics: Theatre History, Gender Studies, Theatre and Performance Studies, Literature, general

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