Neobaroque performance in Miranda Glover’s Masterpiece
Neobaroque performance in Miranda Glover’s Masterpiece

Summary/Abstract: The article briefly discusses the origin and the scope of Neobaroque, the notion of theatrical performance, including theatricality of life, and the way the above can be illustrated by Miranda Glover's first novel, Masterpiece. Neobaroque as a trans-historical set of ideas concerning the nature of reality and the question of representation, manifests itself in the tension between major and minor strategies. The two strategies are at work in theater whose particular form, tableaux vivant, is used in a revised form by Miranda Glover in her novel. Ekphrases, that is, the descriptions of artworks, tableaux vivants and other performances are used in the novel to construct a powerful image of both the individual female artist and femininity in general.

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