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UNINA9910484343703321 |
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Autore |
Jestrovic Silvija |
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Titolo |
Performances of Authorial Presence and Absence : The Author Dies Hard / / by Silvija Jestrovic |
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Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2020 |
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[1st ed. 2020.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (212 pages) : illustrations |
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Collana |
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Adaptation in Theatre and Performance, , 2947-4051 |
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Soggetti |
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Performing arts |
Theater |
Literature - Philosophy |
Literature - History and criticism |
Theatre and Performance Arts |
Literary Theory |
Literary History |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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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 -- . |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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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, |
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