Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Artaud's Textual Alter Egos: Some Preliminary Facts -- Family Romances: Le Moine, Héliogabale, Les Cenci -- The Portrait -- A Note on Theatre -- Notes -- ONE: "Mon ami, ma chimère...": Early Prose Poems on Uccello and Abélard -- Vasari's Biographical Sketch of Uccello -- Marcel Schwob's "Paolo Uccello, peintre" -- "Paul les Oiseaux, ou la place de l'amour" -- "Uccello le poil" -- "Héloïse et Abélard" -- "Le clair Abélard" -- Notes -- TWO: Beneath the Monk's Cowl/Sous l'habit du moine: On Artaud's "Copy" of M.G. Lewis' The Monk -- Notes -- THREE: Modernist Family Romance: The Rhetoric of Héliogabale -- Repetition and Family Romance -- History: The Matriarchal Era Revisited, The Historian's Tale Revised -- The Language of the Origin: Rhetoric and Structure of Héliogabale -- Notes -- FOUR: The Drama of Desire against Itself: Les Cenci -- Dramas Affiliated to Les Cenci: Seneca, Ford, Van Den Leyden -- Three Nineteenth-Century Versions of Les Cenci -- Artaud's Les Cenci: Desire against Itself -- Notes -- FIVE: Self-Portraits at Rodez and Ivry -- The Precursor's Gaze: Van Gogh, ou le suicidé de la société -- Drawings at Rodez and Ivry -- Verbal Self-Portraits: "Ci-gît" and "Artaud le Mômo" -- Notes -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Z.