Writing performances : the stages of Dorothy L. Sayers / Crystal Downing.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Downing, Crystal.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sayers, Dorothy L. (Dorothy Leigh), 1893-1957--Criticism and interpretation.

Sayers, Dorothy L.

Sayers, Dorothy L. (Dorothy Leigh), 1893-1957.

Detective and mystery stories, English--History and criticism.

Detective and mystery stories, English.

Women and literature--England--History--20th century.

Women and literature.

Criticism and interpretation.

England.

History.

Wimsey, Peter, Lord (Fictitious character), 1890-.

Wimsey, Peter.

Modernism (Literature)--England.

Modernism (Literature).

Autobiography in literature.

Self in literature.

Physical Description:

xii, 199 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2004.

Summary:

Employing the insight of contemporray performance theory, "Writing Performances" argues that Dorothy L. Sayers anticipated by decades the postmodern ironizing of Englightenment sensibilities--not in spite of her Anglo-Catholic convictions, but because of them.

Contents:

Setting the Stage: An Introduction 1

1 The Performance Begins Her(e): The Auto/biographical Sayers 15

2 Identifying Gender(ed) Performances 35

3 The Performance Builds: Sayers's Architectural Imagination 67

4 Minding the Performance: Sayers's Literary Criticism 89

5 The Performing Word: Sayers's Unorthodox Orthodoxy 111

6 Begin Here: For the End(s) of the Performance 139.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [161]-191) and index.

ISBN:

1403964521

OCLC:

53992889