Documenting performance knowledge: two narrative techniques in grace Paley's fiction

• Jacqueline Taylor ^[1]
  1. [1] DePaul University

     DePaul University

     City of Chicago, Estados Unidos

     
• Localización: Southern communication journal, ISSN 1041-794X, Vol. 53, nº 1, 1987, págs. 65-79
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • Performers of literature maintain that performance is a literary critical method, but the critical insights derived from a specific performance rarely get translated into critical discourse. This essay describes two narrative techniques revealed in a chamber theatre production of Grace Paley fiction in order to argue that chamber theatre, by forcing us to attend to particular types of narrative issues, functions as a critical methodology. By articulating insights explicated through performance, we substantiate our claim that performance functions as criticism and add to the body of performance theory.