Silvija Jestrovic 
Performances of Authorial Presence and Absence [PDF ebook] 
The Author Dies Hard

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?

Spis treści

1. Chapter 1: The Paradox of the Author’s Death: an Introduction.- 2. Chapter 2: Author as a Heteroglossic Figure.- 3. Chapter 3: Embodiment and Textualization.-  4. Chapter 4: Performing the Self.- 5. Chapter 5: Resurrection as Adaptation: (Re)Makes, Deconstructions and the Gun.- 6. Chapter 6: The Author is Present.- 7. Chapter 7: The Artist is (Meaningfully) Absent.- 8. Chapter 8: Coda: In Other Deaths.- 

 

O autorze

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).