Performances of Authorial Presence and Absence : The Author Dies Hard 1st ed. Edition Silvija Jestrovic

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Product details:

• ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 3030432890
• ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-3030432898
• Author(s): Silvija Jestrovic

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?

Table contents:

1. The Paradox of the Author’s Death: An Introduction
Part I. Birth(s)
2. Author as a Heteroglossic Figure
3. Embodiment and Textualization
4. Performing the Self
Part II. Resurrections
5. Resurrection as Adaptation: (Re)Makes, Deconstructions and the Gun
6. The Author Is Present
7. The Artist Is (Meaningfully) Absent
Part III. Conclusion
8. Coda: In Other Deaths

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