| Titre | De la gargouille au monstre de foire : poétique de l'excroissance dans The Man Who Had Three Arms d'Edward Albee | |
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| Auteur | Valentine Vasak | |
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Revue | Revue française d'études américaines |
| Numéro | no 160, 3ème trimestre 2019 L'Amérique à la loupe : Poétique et politique du détail | |
| Rubrique / Thématique | 4. Du trop-plein à la décharge : poétique de l'ordure |
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| Page | 161-173 | |
| Résumé anglais |
Acknowledged by its author as “one of his most spectacular commercial disasters”, Edward Albee's The Man Who Had Three Arms introduces a bitter acrimonious conference speaker who encountered fame and success thanks to a now resorbed and regretted third arm. If theatre is etymologically a genre devoted to showing, Albee revels in frustrating its audience's voyeuristic drive by limiting the presence of the mysterious appendage to the spiteful and anger-ridden monologic storytelling of a man who once used to be a freak. This paper seeks to focus on the mechanisms of linguistic inflation produced by this morphologic growth, which engages with the limits of the body – of the actor and of the text – and questions our definitions of monstrosity. Source : Éditeur (via Cairn.info) |
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| Article en ligne | http://www.cairn.info/article.php?ID_ARTICLE=RFEA_160_0161 (accès réservé) |
