Writing Performances - The Stages of Dorothy L. Sayers (Hardcover, 2004 ed.)

After Dorothy L. Sayers became famous for her fictional sleuth, Lord Peter Wimsey, she began investigating the mysteries of Anglo-Catholic Christianity, writing plays for both stage and radio. However, because her modernist contemporaries disdained both best-sellers and religious fiction, Sayers has been largely overlooked by the academy. Writing Performances is the first work to position Sayers' diverse writings within the critical climate of high modernism. Employing exuberant illustrations from Sayers' detective fiction to make theoretical issues accessible, the book employs insights from performance theory to argue that Sayers, though a popularizer, presciently anticipated the postmodern ironizing of Enlightenment rationality and scientific objectivity.

General

Imprint:	Palgrave Macmillan
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	September 2004
First published:	2004
Authors:	C. Downing
Dimensions:	216 x 140 x 17mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	199
Edition:	2004 ed.
ISBN-13:	978-1-4039-6452-6
Categories:	Books > Arts & Architecture > Performing arts > Theatre, drama > General Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary studies > From 1900 Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Plays & playwrights > General Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Novels, other prose & writers > General
LSN:	1-4039-6452-1
Barcode:	9781403964526

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