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Performances of Authorial Presence and Absence : The Author Dies Hard

By Silvija Jestrovic

Book information

Publisher
Springer International Publishing;Palgrave Macmillan
Year
2020
ISBN
9783030432898, 9783030432904
DOI
10.1007/978-3-030-43290-4
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
2 MB (2608330 bytes)
Series
Adaptation in Theatre and Performance
Edition
1st ed.
Pages
IX, 209\212
Time added
2021-01-06 05:41:07
Cultural and Media Studies; Theatre and Performanc

Description

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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