Writing Performances : The Stages of Dorothy L. Sayers

Name: Writing Performances
Brand: Palgrave Macmillan
SKU: 9781349732487
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ISBN: 9781349732487

1st ed. 2004

by C. Downing

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Format Paperback / softback

ISBN-10 1349732486

ISBN-13 9781349732487

Edition 1st ed. 2004

Publisher Palgrave Macmillan

Imprint Palgrave Macmillan

Country of Manufacture GB

Country of Publication GB

Publication Date Jan 1st, 2004

Print length 199 Pages

Product Classification: North America (USA and Canada)The arts: general issues The arts: general topics Literature: history & criticism Literature: history and criticism Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000 Literary studies: from c 1900 -The environment

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Employing exuberant illustrations from Sayers' detective fiction to make theoretical issues accessible, the book employs insights from performance theory to argue that Sayers, though a popularizer, presciently anticipated the postmodern ironizing of Enlightenment rationality and scientific objectivity.

After Dorothy L. Sayers became famous for her fictional sleuth, Lord Peter Wimsey, she began investigating the mysteries of Anglo-Catholic Christianity, writing plays for both stage and radio. However, because her modernist contemporaries disdained both best-sellers and religious fiction, Sayers has been largely overlooked by the academy. Writing Performances is the first work to position Sayers' diverse writings within the critical climate of high modernism. Employing exuberant illustrations from Sayers' detective fiction to make theoretical issues accessible, the book employs insights from performance theory to argue that Sayers, though a popularizer, presciently anticipated the postmodern ironizing of Enlightenment rationality and scientific objectivity.

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