Performances of Authorial Presence and Absence The Author Dies Hard
Title:
Performances of Authorial Presence and Absence The Author Dies Hard
ISBN:
9783030432904
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Edition:
1st ed. 2020.
Publication Information New:
Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2020.
Physical Description:
IX, 209 p. 5 illus., 4 illus. in color. online resource.
Series:
Adaptation in Theatre and Performance,
Contents:
1. Chapter 1: The Paradox of the Author's Death: an Introduction -- 2. Chapter 2: Author as a Heteroglossic Figure -- 3. Chapter 3: Embodiment and Textualization -- 4. Chapter 4: Performing the Self -- 5. Chapter 5: Resurrection as Adaptation: (Re)Makes, Deconstructions and the Gun -- 6. Chapter 6: The Author is Present -- 7. Chapter 7: The Artist is (Meaningfully) Absent -- 8. Chapter 8: Coda: In Other Deaths -- .
Abstract:
This book takes Roland Barthes's famous proclamation of 'The Death of the Author' as a starting point to investigate concepts of authorial presence and absence on various levels of text and performance. By offering a new understanding of 'the author' as neither a source of unquestioned authority nor an obsolete construct, but rather as a performative figure, the book illuminates wide-ranging aesthetic and political aspects of 'authorial death' by asking: how is the author constructed through cultural and political imaginaries and erasures, intertextual and intertheatrical references, re-performances and self-referentiality? And what are the politics and ethics of these constructions?
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Language:
English