Rita Renoir

When Artaud does the striptease

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  • Renato Tomasino University of Palermo

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.4000/mimesis.1665

Abstract

Emotionally engaged as Stanislavskij, cruel as Artaud, Rita elaborates her strip along four ‘perversions’ of the itinerary from Eros to Thanatos: Exhibitionism formulates its double in the Icon; Nymphomania makes an obsessed repetition of it; Humiliation publicly humiliates that nymphomaniac inclination; finally, Disintegration disfigures the Icon in the corps morcelé, manifesting together the sublime exterior and the interior excrementitious and unclean. But not so much that the Simulacrum cannot return to shine, to start again...

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Published

2019-06-20

How to Cite

Tomasino, R. (2019). Rita Renoir: When Artaud does the striptease. Mimesis Journal, 8(1), 95–113. https://doi.org/10.4000/mimesis.1665

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