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Performances of Authorial Presence and Absence

The Author Dies Hard

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Overview

  • Enters into a dialogue with existing scholarship in critical theory, theatre and performance studies, cultural studies and philosophy to offer its own original conceptual paradigms
  • Offers conceptual departures from key texts written by authors including Barthes, Foucault, Derrida, and the Russian Formalists
  • Develops the concept of inter-theatricality as a performative dialogue

Part of the book series: Adaptation in Theatre and Performance (ATP)

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Table of contents (8 chapters)

  1. Birth(s)

  2. Resurrections

  3. Conclusion

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About this book

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?

Authors and Affiliations

  • Leamington Spa, UK

    Silvija Jestrovic

About the author

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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