THE FICTIONAL, THE AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL AND THE AESTHETIC SELF: PERFORMING FIRST-PERSON DISCOURSE
THE FICTIONAL, THE AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL AND THE AESTHETIC SELF: PERFORMING FIRST-PERSON DISCOURSE

Summary/Abstract: The Fictional, the Autobiographical and the Aesthetic Self: Performing First-Person Discourse. The paper focuses on the particular self-narrative of first-person dramatic texts, as well as on the ethico-aesthetic reception brought along by the performance of monodrama. Dwelling on the idiosyncratic and often hypertrophic expression of the self in front of a collective or a unique witness, a real or an imaginary beholder, the study points to the enactment of aesthetic singularity and its specific type of discursivity. Over the last decades, the performance of the self has been interpreted mostly through the ideological lens of cultural studies, highly indebted to the micro-politics of identity. Still, the “politics of the self” can reinforce, in its turn, the aesthetic thinking, by recovering a certain anthropological approach on the liminality of artistic condition.

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