Documenting performance knowledge: Two narrative techniques in grace Paley's fiction
- 1 December 1987
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Taylor & Francis in Southern Speech Communication Journal
- Vol. 53 (1) , 65-79
- https://doi.org/10.1080/10417948709372713
Abstract
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.Keywords
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