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Format
Paperback / Softback
Book Series
Adaptation in Theatre and Performance
ISBN-10
3030432920
ISBN-13
9783030432928
Edition
2020 ed.
Publisher
Springer Nature Switzerland AG
Imprint
Springer Nature Switzerland AG
Country of Manufacture
CH
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Jun 24th, 2021
Print length
209 Pages
Product Classification:
Theatre studiesLiterary theoryLiterary studies: plays & playwrights
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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?
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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