Abstract
What interests me is Orton's evocation of the Telegraph reader: the events of Ruffian are not "realistic" but journalistic. The "truth" he is insisting upon is not to be found in reality, but in the newspapers; not in anything resembling "life", but in a certain kind of text. And, in fact, this is the crucial fact of Orton's work — its evocation of texts and textuality, its acknowledgment of the part language plays in creating the world. Orton's understanding and manipulation of that language is at the center of his plays; it is, roughly speaking, what his plays are about.
Publisher
University of Toronto Press Inc. (UTPress)
Subject
Literature and Literary Theory
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3 articles.
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