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Record Nr.

UNINA9910484343703321

Autore

Jestrovic Silvija

Titolo

Performances of Authorial Presence and Absence : The Author Dies Hard / / by Silvija Jestrovic

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2020

ISBN

9783030432904

3030432904

Edizione

[1st ed. 2020.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (212 pages) : illustrations

Collana

Adaptation in Theatre and Performance, , 2947-4051

Disciplina

792.01

Soggetti

Performing arts

Theater

Literature - Philosophy

Literature - History and criticism

Theatre and Performance Arts

Literary Theory

Literary History

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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 -- .

Sommario/riassunto

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?