Writing Performances The Stages of Dorothy L. Sayers,9781403964526

Writing Performances The Stages of Dorothy L. Sayers

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ISBN13: 9781403964526
ISBN10: 1403964521
Format: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 2004-08-21
Publisher(s): Palgrave Macmillan
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Summary

WINNER OF THE BARBARA REYNOLDS AWARD! 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.

Author Biography

Crystal Downing is Associate Professor of English and Film Studies at Messiah College in Grantham, Pennsylvania. Her discussions of postmodern discourse appear in journals such as Postmodern Culture, Religion and the Arts, Books and Culture, Literature/Film Quarterly, and College Literature. She brings Dorothy L. Sayers to the discussion in Scholarship and Christian Faith: Enlarging the Conversation. Like Sayers, Downing is fascinated by architecture, earning her doctorate at the University of California at Santa Barbara by assessing descriptions of architecture in nineteenth and early twentieth century English literature.

Table of Contents

Setting the Stage (An Introduction) * The Performance Begins Her(e): The Auto/biographical Sayers * Identifyig Gender(ed) Performances * The Performance Builds: Sayers' Architectural Imagination * Minding the Performance: Sayers' Literary Criticism * The Performing Word: Sayers' Unorthodox Orthodoxy * Begin Here: For the End(s) of the Performance * Encore (A Conclusion)
Setting the Stage (An Introduction) * The Performance Begins Her(e): The Auto/biographical Sayers * Identifyig Gender(ed) Performances * The Performance Builds: Sayers' Architectural Imagination * Minding the Performance: Sayers' Literary Criticism * The Performing Word: Sayers' Unorthodox Orthodoxy * Begin Here: For the End(s) of the Performance * Encore (A Conclusion)

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