Abstract
http://dx.doi.org/10.5007/2175-8026.2017v70n1p265Esse artigo explora referências ao teatro em prefácios de Charles Dickens, Nathaniel Hawthorne e Henry James. Ênfase é dada à forma como esses autores empregam figuras como o mestre de cerimônias e o dramaturgo para alcançar seus públicos e projetar imagens autorais. As figuras em questão são historicizadas e discutidas sob a luz dos conceitos identificados pelos termos performativo e teatro de imagens, e o argumento proposto é o de que referências ao teatro revelam tensões entre a autoexposição e a autoproteção, assim como entre a afirmação da autoridade e sua subversão e fragmentação na escrita de prefácios no século XIX.
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Montes Claros, MG, BR Abstract his essay explores references to the theatre in prefaces by Charles Dickens, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Henry James
By examining examples from Charles Dickens, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Henry James, I shall argue that references to the theater in these authors’ prefatory writing reveal tensions between self-display and self-concealment, as well as between authorial selffashioning and the fragmentation of the author into diferent selves
As Joan Stevens explains with regard to the theatrical analogy and the serialization of Vanity Fair: “he novel, like an established play, has been making regular appearances; its author may well have a sense that the characters are an acting company and he their stage manager” (291)
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Montes Claros, MG, BR Abstract his essay explores references to the theatre in prefaces by Charles Dickens, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Henry James.
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