Physical Text

Question 1

Barthes, From Work to Text, 1964

Answer 1

“the Text is experienced only in activity, in a production. It follows that the text cannot stop (for example, at a library shelf); its constitutive moment is traversal”

Question 2

The Pillowman, Martin McDonagh, 2003

Answer 2

“I believe that you’ll keep all my stories with my case file and not release them until fifty years after my death, just like you promised you would”

Question 3

Loitering with Intent, Muriel Spark, 1981

Answer 3

“it hung around me nightmarishly - the possibility that nowhere, nowhere in the world, did my ‘Warrender Chase’ exist any more.”

Question 4

Pillowman 2

Answer 4

“Because, for reasons known only to himself, the bulldog of a policeman chose not to put the stories in the burning trash” Katurian

Question 5

Barthes, The Death of the Author, 1968

Answer 5

“the birth of the reader must be at the cost of the death of the author”

Question 6

Loitering 2

Answer 6

“my Warrender Chase; my foolscap pages with the first chapters I had once torn up and stuck together; my ‘Warrender Chase’, mine. I hugged it. I kissed it.”