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- Title
"An Evasion of Ontology" Being Adrienne Kennedy.
- Authors
Barnett, Claudia
- Abstract
The article deals with Adrienne Kennedy's own evasion of ontology which can be traced back to her first publication, a short story titled Because of the King of France(1960). In 1987, Kennedy published her autobiography, a scrapbook-style montage of photos and vignettes titled People Who Led to My Plays, designed to answer the question that students and directors most frequently ask: who or what influenced her to write the way she does? Kennedy early on called her work a growth of images, which has become increasingly accurate with time. Her work builds on itself, frequently referencing earlier characters and themes. John Simon has disparagingly labeled her a great recycler, a phrase that, taken positively, is actually a fine description of the growth that whirls from image to image, from play to play. Her writing spirals with reflexivity, creating a web of embedded monologues and motifs.
- Subjects
KENNEDY, Adrienne, 1931-; ONTOLOGY; SHORT story (Literary form); BIOGRAPHY (Literary form); MONOLOGUE
- Publication
TDR: The Drama Review (MIT Press), 2005, Vol 49, Issue 3, p157
- ISSN
1054-2043
- Publication type
Entertainment Review
- DOI
10.1162/1054204054742417