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Performances of Authorial Presence and Absence

Silvija Jestrovic
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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, intertextual and intertheatrical references, re-performances and self-referentiality? And what are the politics and ethics of these constructions?
      Format: Paperback / softback CONTRIBUTORS: Silvija Jestrovic EAN: 9783030432928 COUNTRY: Switzerland PAGES: WEIGHT: 454 g HEIGHT: 210 cm
      PUBLISHED BY: Springer Nature Switzerland AG DATE PUBLISHED: 2021-06-24 CITY: GENRE: LITERARY CRITICISM / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / Semiotics & Theory, PERFORMING ARTS / Theater / General WIDTH: 148 cm SPINE:

      Book Themes:

      Theatre studies, Literary theory, Literary studies: plays and playwrights

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      Silvija Jestrovic teaches in Theatre and Performance Studies at the University of Warwick, UK. She is the author of Theatre of Estrangement: Theory, Practice, Ideology (2006) and Performance Space Utopia: Cities of War, Cities of Exile (2013).
      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?
      Format: Paperback / softback CONTRIBUTORS: Silvija Jestrovic EAN: 9783030432928 COUNTRY: Switzerland PAGES: WEIGHT: 454 g HEIGHT: 210 cm
      PUBLISHED BY: Springer Nature Switzerland AG DATE PUBLISHED: 2021-06-24 CITY: GENRE: LITERARY CRITICISM / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / Semiotics & Theory, PERFORMING ARTS / Theater / General WIDTH: 148 cm SPINE:

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      Theatre studies, Literary theory, Literary studies: plays and playwrights

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      Silvija Jestrovic teaches in Theatre and Performance Studies at the University of Warwick, UK. She is the author of Theatre of Estrangement: Theory, Practice, Ideology (2006) and Performance Space Utopia: Cities of War, Cities of Exile (2013).

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