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.
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.Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
Alison Gibbons is a reader in contemporary stylistics at Sheffield Hallam University. She is the author or coeditor of several books, including Fictionality and Multimodal Narratives (Nebraska, 2023); Metamodernism: Historicity, Affect, and Depth after Postmodernism; and Pronouns in Literature: Positions and Perspectives in Language. Elizabeth King is the author of The Novelist in the Novel: Gender and Genius in Fictional Representations of Authorship, 1850–1950.
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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
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
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