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Drawing from Bakhtin’s concepts of heteroglossia, whereby the work is not dominated by a single consciousness, but rather shaped through multiplicity of voices, the chapter proposes the notion of the author as a heteroglossic figure in two different pre-print contexts: (1) the Ancient Greece focusing on (a) the Homeriadi, poets/performers whose task was to preserve Homer’s work and channel his authorial presence in their performances and (b) the appearance of the authorial figure as a protagonist of comedy (e.g. Aristophanes’s Frogs); and (2) the Middle Ages focusing on authorial anonymity in (a) the relationship to God and (b) the appearance of the vernacular authoring of commedia dell arte.
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Jestrovic, S. (2020). Author as a Heteroglossic Figure. In: Performances of Authorial Presence and Absence . Adaptation in Theatre and Performance. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-43290-4_2
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