The Creative Power in the Failure of Word and Language. On Silence, Stuttering and other Performative Intensities
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Christel Stalpaert
While a ‘good’ style, for Quintilian, is correct, lucid, elegant, and balanced, Gilles Deleuze, in his essay He Stuttered, examined the style of a language in disequilibrium. These two concepts of style may be used to interpret Pieter De Buysser's L'opéra bègue / Stotteropera (2004). The Flemish theatre-maker and playwright challenges the comfort of spectators, forces them to stutter in their interpretation and to dissolve closed identities. Jacques Rancière, who considered the contradictory history of rhetoric and the model of the ‘good orator’, has argued that politics revolves around what is seen and who has the ability to see and the talent to speak. The question is whether L'Opéra bègue / Stotteropera takes part in a certain recasting of the sensible, and, more generally, whether performances that leave the spectator stuttering can be termed ‘political performances’.
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Articles in the same Issue
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- Altersschwelle 30/33. Zur Geschichte einer semantischen Einheit
- Puppetry in Eighteenth-Century England and Germany, and in the Nachtwachen von Bonaventura
- Max Dauthendeys “japanische Novellen” in Die acht Gesichter am Biwasee – Literarischer Exotismus oder schon interkulturelle Literatur?
- The Creative Power in the Failure of Word and Language. On Silence, Stuttering and other Performative Intensities
- Meine Sprache und Ich. Ilse Aichingers Zwiesprache im Vergleich mit Derridas Le monolinguisme de l'autre
- “My mind is the subject of these bewildered fragments”. La défaite de l'homme et la défiguration progressive dans le théâtre de Sarah Kane
- Upstaging the “Death of the Subject”. Gertrude Stein, the Theater, and the Self-Differential Self
- Identifikation einer Frau – Terézia Moras Ophelia
- Rezeptionsmodelle in Milan Kunderas Roman L'immortalité
- Im Netz der Gewalt. Der Terrorfilm zwischen Horror, Zeitgeschichte und medialer Berichterstattung
- Rezensionen
- Adressen der Mitarbeiter
