Whereas theatricality often tends to be opposed to authenticity, which in itself is a ambivalent concept when dealing with fiction, or even performance, drama as a trope may be viewed as a mode of writing. The notion of writers who theatricalize their novels, on the contrary, is one that may apply to Auster's work, The Brooklyn Follies ((All references to The Brooklyn Follies, hereafter abridged as BF, are to Auster 2006.)). As Anne Ubersfeld reminds us of Barthes's definition of "theatricality" in the lines from Critical Essays "What is theatricality ? It is theater-minus-text, it is a density of signs and sensations built up on stage starting from the written argument" (Bartes 1972, 25 cited by Ubersfeld), she simultaneously questions it as an "endlessly confusing definition" (Ubersfeld 1999, 7). While theatre theorists like Davis and Postlewait, for instance, have attempted to circumscribe theatricality to the world of drama, Litvak borrowed it to look at performance in major English nineteenty-century novels. Theatricality as a concept has been shown to resist a clear cut definition too. As defined by Graham Allen, it is "a split, multiple concept, which poses questions and requires one to engage with them rather than forcing one to produce definite answers" (Allen 2000, 59). Kristeva coined the term in 1969, intertextuality has been both remarkably fruitful and problematic. Overture : why intertextuality and theatricality ?Įver since J. "Once the conversation begins, further stage directions will be kept to a minimum" 1.
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