Staging De Quincey: Soundscape and Literary Language in Tess De Quincey’s Ghost Quarters

Goodall, J; Stevenson, I

Staging De Quincey: Soundscape and Literary Language in Tess De Quincey’s Ghost Quarters

Goodall, J Stevenson, I

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Citation:: About Performance, 2017, 14/15 pp. 139 - 153
Issue Date:: 2017

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dc.contributor.author	Goodall, J	en_US
dc.contributor.author	Stevenson, I https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6920-3573	en_US
dc.date.issued	2017	en_US
dc.identifier.citation	About Performance, 2017, 14/15 pp. 139 - 153	en_US
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dc.description.abstract	A door opens partially, and a hand appears, then a face, blurred in the half-light. The advancing figure makes its entrance with a slow fluidity that suggests ectoplasm, and in fact this is not a physical entity. It hovers in space for a few seconds, semitransparent, before dematerialising, along with the traces of the portal through which it just passed. Then, as the light grows and the eye discovers more of the surrounding space, another figure is revealed, with the same aura of pale hair surrounding the upturned face-but this is a gravity-bound presence, and as it rises from the floor, its movements are a confusion of impulses. It is quite literally finding its feet	en_US
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dc.title	Staging De Quincey: Soundscape and Literary Language in Tess De Quincey’s Ghost Quarters	en_US
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Abstract:

A door opens partially, and a hand appears, then a face, blurred in the half-light. The advancing figure makes its entrance with a slow fluidity that suggests ectoplasm, and in fact this is not a physical entity. It hovers in space for a few seconds, semitransparent, before dematerialising, along with the traces of the portal through which it just passed. Then, as the light grows and the eye discovers more of the surrounding space, another figure is revealed, with the same aura of pale hair surrounding the upturned face-but this is a gravity-bound presence, and as it rises from the floor, its movements are a confusion of impulses. It is quite literally finding its feet

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