In this article, Eshelman analyses Ali Smith’s novel Hotel World and Olga Tokarzcuk’s story Hotel Capital, both as a performatist works, commenting on the setting and technique of the narrative. His hypotheses are grounded in the semiotics of literary text and the ideas of such noted scholars as Mircea Eliade and Peter Sloterdijk.
Eshelman deconstructs the hotel setting to read its triple function: protective, sacral and aesthetic. Examining the ideas that emerge from the stories, he also identifies the differences between post-modernism and performatism.
Key words: space, sphere, simulation, sacral, performance, monism
Issue Year: 2020
Issue No: 20
Page range: 11 – 27
Page count: 17
Language: Albanian
Interview:
Bajrush Mjaku: Carry the theatre in yourself
Articles:
Raoul Eshelman: Performatizmi në letërsi / Performatism in Literature
Giorgio Agamben: Nimfat/ Nymphs
Xhezair Dashi: Nipi i Ramoit mes vesit dhe virtytit / Rameau’s Nephew between vice and virtue
Orjela Stafasani: Një roman lirik për kohën e ‘poetëve ‘/ A lyrical novel about the time of couplet makers
Dritan Dragusha: Bioetika dhe interpretimet morale / Bioethics and moral interpretations
Majlinda Bregasi: Imazhet letrare si përfaqesuese të identitetit kulturor / Literary images as cultural identity representatives
Ag Apolloni: Manuali i Manuelit/ The Manual of Manuel
Feride Papleka: Proza postmoderne / Postmodern fiction
Ridvan Emini: Liria si ekuilibrim / Freedom as balance
Intervista:
Bajrush Mjaku: Barteni teatrin në vete
ISSN (online): 2415-2749. ISSN (print): 2310-9998. Issue 19/2020. E-mail:
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