Reading the contemporary author narrative, authority, fictionality
Machine generated contents note: List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: Authorship in Literary Criticism and Narrative Theory -- Elizabeth King and Alison Gibbons -- PART I: THE AUTHOR ON THE WORLD STAGE: SOCIAL AND CULTURAL CONTEXTS -- 1. The Public Intellectual on Stage: Chimam...
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| Sprache: | eng |
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Lincoln
University of Nebraska Press
2023
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| Schriftenreihe: | Frontiers of narrative
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Tag hinzufügen | Zusammenfassung: | Machine generated contents note: List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: Authorship in Literary Criticism and Narrative Theory -- Elizabeth King and Alison Gibbons -- PART I: THE AUTHOR ON THE WORLD STAGE: SOCIAL AND CULTURAL CONTEXTS -- 1. The Public Intellectual on Stage: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie -- Odile Heynders -- 2. The Pseudonymic Author and Elena Ferrante's Evasions of Gender -- Jaclyn Partyka -- 3. The Permissible Author: Cultural Politics and the Market Economy of the Literary Sphere -- Christopher González -- PART II: THE AUTHOR IN THE MIRROR: AUTO-AUTHORSHIP, MEMOIR, AND THE NARRATING 'I' -- 4. Authorship and Autobiography -- Arnaud Schmitt -- 5. "I wanted to be present to hear her last words": A Cognitive Approach to Multimodal Autobiographical Elegy -- Alison Gibbons -- 6. The Author as a Work of Art: Graphic Memoir, Style, and Authorial Agents -- Nancy Pedri -- 7. Radical Realism and Modes of Fictionality in Contemporary Auto/Biographical Literature -- Fiona Doloughan -- PART III: THE AUTHOR ON THE PAGE: REPRESENTATIONS OF AUTHORSHIP IN FICTION -- 8. Reconstructing the Author through Biofiction's Anchored Imagination -- Michael Lackey and Laura Cernat -- 9. The Anxiety of Authorship: Novelists as Narrators -- Paul Dawson -- 10. Dead Authors Tell No Tales: The Ailing Author-Character in Contemporary Novels about Novelists -- Elizabeth King -- CODA -- 11. The Author beyond 'the implied author': From Postclassical to Postcritical Narratology -- Stefan Kjerkegaard -- Contributors -- Index "Reading the Contemporary Author brings together leading scholars in cultural theory, literary criticism, stylistics, narratology, comparative literature, and autobiography studies to interrogate how we read the contemporary author in public and cultural life, in life writing, and in literature"-- |
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| Beschreibung: | xxxiv, 252 Seiten Illustrationen 24 cm |
| ISBN: | 9781496234612 978-1-4962-3461-2 |