Literary Careers in the Modern Era (eBook, PDF)

Redaktion: Davidson, Guy; Evans, Nicola

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

This is the first study of the shape and diversity of the literary career in the 20th and 21st centuries. Bringing together essays on a wide range of authors from Australia, Canada, the United States and the United Kingdom, the book investigates how literary careers are made and unmade, and how norms of authorship are shifting in the digital era.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan UK
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. April 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781137478504
• Artikelnr.: 43978835

Autorenporträt

Leigh Dale, University of Wollongong, Australia Laura Dietz, Anglia Ruskin University, UK Guy Davidson, University of Wollongong, Australia Nicola Evans, University of Wollongong, Australia Chene Heady, Longwood University, USA Elizabeth McMahon, University of New South Wales, Australia John O'Brien, independent scholar, Germany Mohanalakshmi Rajakumar, Northwestern University, Qatar. Rumsha Shahzad, Georgetown University SFS, Qatar. Paul Sharrad, University of Wollongong, Australia Jeff Solomon, University of Southern California, USA

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements Notes on the Contributors 1. Introduction: Brilliant
Careers?; Guy Davidson and Nicola Evans PART I: CAREER/SUCCESS 2. An
Apologia for Buffoons: The Paradox of G.K. Chesterton's Literary Authority
in his Autobiography; Chene Heady 3. From the Audience to the Stage:
Literary Celebrity and Literary Career in Norman Mailer's ; John O'Brien 4.
The Retrospective Stage: Late Career Fiction and Authorial Self-Renewal;
Hywel Dix PART II: QUEER CAREERS 5. Broadly Queer and Specifically Gay: The
Literary Celebrity and Literary Career of Gertrude Stein; Jeff Solomon 6.
Sexuality and Shame in James Baldwin's Career; Guy Davidson 7.
Parallel:Parallax - The Melancholy Dialectics of Dionne Brand; Elizabeth
McMahon 8. Christos Tsolkias, 'Career,' and Anti-Capitalist Critique; Leigh
Dale PART III: CHANGING CONTEXTS: RETHINKING HOW LITERARY CAREERS ARE MADE
9. Brilliant or Bust? Tom Keneally's Literary Career; Paul Sharrad 10.
Inside the Writer's Room, the Artist's Studio and ; Nicola Evans 11. She
needs a Website of her Own: The 'Indie' Woman Writer and Contemporary
Publishing; Mohanalakshmi Rajakumar and Rumsha Shahzad 12. Who are you
Calling an Author? Changing Definitions of Career Legitimacy for Novelists
in the Digital Era; Laura Dietz Bibliography Index