Performances of Authorial Presence and Absence : The Author Dies Hard (Adaptation in Theatre and Performance) （2020）

Jestrovic, Silvija

Springer Nature Switzerland AG（2020/06発売）

• 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版／ページ数 209 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9783030432898
• DDC分類 792.01

Full 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?

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.-