LEADER 02648oam 22004454a 450 001 9910524851303321 005 20210915050422.0 010 $a0-253-05328-5 035 $a(CKB)5600000000001706 035 $a(OCoLC)1259584952 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse92558 035 $a(EXLCZ)995600000000001706 100 $a20100326d1989 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|||||||nn|n 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aJean Genet and the Semiotics of Performance$fLaura Oswald 210 1$aBloomington :$cIndiana University Press,$d1989. 210 4$dİ1989. 215 $a1 online resource (1 online resource xvii, 169 pages.) 225 0 $aAdvances in semiotics 330 $aWhen Jean Genet, the enfant terrible of the French theater, died on April 15, 1986, he left a rich and controversial literary legacy. Genet, a homosexual and ex-convict, wrote about events and in a language that could ruffle the complacency of the most sophisticated reader. His work can be seen as a struggle of the social outcast to be heard from beyond the borders of the dominant, heterosexual culture. This challenging book tracks the effects of this struggle in Genet's novels, plays, film, and political essays by means of a general semiotics of performance. By staging a dialogue between Genet and writers such as Derrida, Bakhtin, Metz, Ricoeur, and Benveniste, Laura Oswald pursues the question of performance in the form of a debate rather than that of a closed theoretical system. Her approach puts into play relations between semiotics and philosophy and provides a means of understanding the relationship between Genet's poetics and his radical politics. By focusing on the role of the double in Genet's literary imagination and by reading Genet with his "others" in the realm of theory, Oswald comes to grips with the overriding concerns of a man whose life in literature was never very far from his life as prisoner, as outcast, as self-proclaimed exile. 606 $aSemiotics and literature$2fast$3(OCoLC)fst01112369 606 $aSemiotique et litterature 606 $aSemiotics and literature$zFrance 607 $aFrance$2fast 608 $aCriticism, interpretation, etc. 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aSemiotics and literature. 615 0$aSemiotique et litterature. 615 0$aSemiotics and literature 700 $aOswald$b Laura R$01139468 801 0$bMdBmJHUP 801 1$bMdBmJHUP 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910524851303321 996 $aJean Genet and the Semiotics of Performance$92676799 997 $aUNINA