Reading the Contemporary Author : Narrative, Authority, Fictionality
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| Title: | Reading the Contemporary Author : Narrative, Authority, Fictionality |
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| Description: | Readers, literary critics, and theorists alike have long demonstrated an abiding fascination with the author, both as a real person—an artist and creator—and as a theoretical concept that shapes the way we read literary works. Whether anonymous, pseudonymous, or trending on social media, authors continue to be an object of critical and readerly interest. Yet theories surrounding authorship have yet to be satisfactorily updated to register the changes wrought on the literary sphere by the advent of the digital age, the recent turn to autofiction, and the current literary climate more generally. In Reading the Contemporary Author the contributors look back on the long history of theorizing the author and offer innovative new approaches for understanding this elusive figure. Mapping the contours of the vast territory that is contemporary authorship, this collection investigates authorship in the context of narrative genres ranging from memoir and autobiographically informed texts to biofiction and novels featuring novelist narrators and characters. Bringing together the perspectives of leading scholars in narratology, cultural theory, literary criticism, stylistics, comparative literature, and autobiography studies, Reading the Contemporary Author demonstrates that a variety of interdisciplinary viewpoints and critical stances are necessary to capture the multifaceted nature of contemporary authorship. |
| Authors: | Alison Gibbons, Elizabeth King |
| Resource Type: | eBook. |
| Subjects: | Authorship, Autobiography--Authorship, Authors in literature |
| Categories: | LITERARY CRITICISM / General |
| Database: | eBook Collection (EBSCOhost) |
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