{"product_id":"9783030432928","title":"Performances of Authorial Presence and Absence","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?","brand":"Silvija Jestrovic","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47598931083582,"sku":"9783030432928","price":2755.58,"currency_code":"ZAR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4357\/7662\/products\/9783030432928.jpg?v=1707699697","url":"https:\/\/exclusivebooks.co.za\/products\/9783030432928","provider":"Exclusive Books Online","version":"1.0","type":"link"}