While many students of Sayers have uncritically rendered a flat, one-dimensional version of the writer, Downing presents a beautifully nuanced portrait of the writer, drawn from the many phases and loves of Sayer's life. "Marked by beautiful writing and depth of insight, this book provides an important corrective to previous scholarship on Dorothy L. Both devotees and doubters will find here a Sayers who is a solo performer but also part of an impressive troupe." - Wesley Kort, Professor and Chair of the Department of Religion at Duke University and author of Place and Space in Modern Fiction (2004) And a performing Sayers is suited for the postmodernist stage where Downing puts her among assorted, current theorists and critics. A performing Sayers is an artist, Christian, and thinker who holds together tradition and change, uncertainty and faith, and creativity and discipline. "Under the trope of 'performance,' Downing deploys a Sayers that is as versatile, elusive, and intriguing as its original must have been.
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