On the uses of the fantastic in modern theatre [electronic resource] : Cocteau, Oedipus, and the monster / Irene Eynat-Confino.

In this innovative reading, Irene Eynat-Confino offers an explanation for the higher effectiveness of the fantastic in theatre. Taking Cocteau's masterpiece The Infernal Machine as a case study, she also reveals that when the fantastic is introduced within a realistic context, it encodes and co...

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Online Access:	Full Text (via Springer)
Main Author:	Eynat-Confino, Irène (Author)
Format:	Electronic eBook
Language:	English
Published:	New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2008.
Series:	Palgrave studies in theatre and performance history.
Subjects:	Theater > Philosophy. Fantastic, The, in literature. Fantasy drama > History and criticism. Fantasy drama. Criticism, interpretation, etc.