Celebrity Authorship And Afterlives In English And American Literature

Download Celebrity Authorship And Afterlives In English And American Literature full books in PDF, epub, and Kindle. Read online Celebrity Authorship And Afterlives In English And American Literature ebook anywhere anytime directly on your device. Fast Download speed and no annoying ads. We cannot guarantee that every ebooks is available!

Celebrity Authorship and Afterlives in English and American Literature

Author : Rick Honings
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137558687
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (375 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Celebrity Authorship and Afterlives in English and American Literature by : Rick Honings

Download or read book Celebrity Authorship and Afterlives in English and American Literature written by Rick Honings and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-09-21 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book maps the history of literary celebrity from the early nineteenth century to the present, paying special attention to the authors’ crafting of their writerly self as well as the afterlife of their public image. Case studies are John Keats, Edgar Allan Poe, Eliza Cook, Herman Melville, Oscar Wilde, Gertrude Stein, J.D. Salinger and Zadie Smith. Literary celebrity is part and parcel of modern literary culture, yet it continues to raise intriguing questions about the nature of authorship, writerly fame and the tension between authorial self-fashioning and public appropriation. This volume provides unique insights into the phenomenon.

Authorship, Activism and Celebrity

Author : Sandra Mayer
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1501392344
Total Pages : 265 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (13 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Authorship, Activism and Celebrity by : Sandra Mayer

Download or read book Authorship, Activism and Celebrity written by Sandra Mayer and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2023-06-15 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since long before the age of celebrity activism, literary authors have used their public profiles and cultural capital to draw attention to a wide range of socio-political concerns. This book is the first to explore – through history, criticism and creative interventions – the relationship between authorship, political activism and celebrity culture across historical periods, cultures, literatures and media. It brings together scholars, industry stakeholders and prominent writer-activists to engage in a conversation on literary fame and public authority. These scholarly essays, interviews, conversations and opinion pieces interrogate the topos of the artist as prophet and acute critic of the zeitgeist; analyse the ideological dimension of literary celebrity; and highlight the fault lines between public and private authorial selves, 'pure' art, political commitment and marketplace imperatives. In case studies ranging from the 18th century to present-day controversies, authors illuminate the complex relationship between literature, politics, celebrity culture and market activism, bringing together vivid current debates on the function and responsibility of literature in increasingly fractured societies.

Gothic Remixed

Author : Megen de Bruin-Molé
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1350103063
Total Pages : 281 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (51 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Gothic Remixed by : Megen de Bruin-Molé

Download or read book Gothic Remixed written by Megen de Bruin-Molé and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2019-11-14 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Longlisted for the 2022 International Gothic Association's Allan Lloyd Smith Prize The bestselling genre of Frankenfiction sees classic literature turned into commercial narratives invaded by zombies, vampires, werewolves, and other fantastical monsters. Too engaged with tradition for some and not traditional enough for others, these 'monster mashups' are often criticized as a sign of the artistic and moral degeneration of contemporary culture. These hybrid creations are the 'monsters' of our age, lurking at the limits of responsible consumption and acceptable appropriation. This book explores the boundaries and connections between contemporary remix and related modes, including adaptation, parody, the Gothic, Romanticism, and postmodernism. Taking a multimedia approach, case studies range from novels like Pride and Prejudice and Zombies and The Extraordinary Adventures of the Athena Club series, to television programmes such as Penny Dreadful, to popular visual artworks like Kevin J. Weir's Flux Machine GIFs. Megen de Bruin-Molé uses these monstrous and liminal works to show how the thrill of transgression has been contained within safe and familiar formats, resulting in the mashups that dominate Western popular culture.

Dealing with Authorship

Author : Sarah Burnautzki
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1527520730
Total Pages : 275 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (275 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Dealing with Authorship by : Sarah Burnautzki

Download or read book Dealing with Authorship written by Sarah Burnautzki and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2018-10-30 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Literature and film generate symbolic as well as economic capital. As such, aesthetic productions exist in various contexts following contrasting rules. Which role(s) do authors and filmmakers play in positioning themselves in this conflictive relation? Bringing together fourteen essays by scholars from Germany, the USA, the UK and France, this volume examines the multiple ways in which the progressive (self-) fashioning of authors and filmmakers interacts with the public sphere, generating authorial postures, and thus arouses attention. It questions the autonomous nature of the artistic creation and highlights the parallels and differences between the more or less clear-cut national contexts, in order to elucidate the complexity of authorship from a multifaceted perspective, combining contributions from literary and cultural studies, as well as film, media, and communication studies. Dealing with Authorship, as a transversal venture, brings together reflections on leading critics, exploring works and postures of canonical and non-canonical authors and filmmakers. An uncommon and challenging picture of authorship is explored here, across national and international artistic fields that affect Africa, Europe and America. The volume raises the questions of cultural linkages between South and North, imbalances between the mainstream and the margins in an economic, literary or “racial” dimension, and, more broadly, the relation of power and agency between artists, editors, critics, publics, media and markets.

Author Fictions

Author : Ingo Berensmeyer
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3111056163
Total Pages : 516 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (11 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Author Fictions by : Ingo Berensmeyer

Download or read book Author Fictions written by Ingo Berensmeyer and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2023-10-04 with total page 516 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fictional novelists and other author characters have been a staple of novels and stories from the early nineteenth century onwards. What is it that attracts authors to representing their own kind in fiction? Author Fictions addresses this question from a theoretical and historical perspective. Narrative representations of literary authorship not only reflect the aesthetic convictions and social conditions of their actual authors or their time; they also take an active part in negotiating and shaping these conditions. The book unfolds the history of such ‘author fictions’ in European and North American texts since the early nineteenth century as a literary history of literary authorship, ranging from the Victorian bildungsroman to contemporary autofiction. It combines rhetorical and sociological approaches to answer the question how literature makes authors. Identifying ‘author fictions’ as narratives that address the fragile material conditions of literary creation in the actual and symbolic economies of production, Ingo Berensmeyer explores how these texts elaborate and manipulate concepts and models of authorship. This book will be relevant to English, American and comparative literary studies and to anyone interested in the topic of literary authorship.

Oscar Wilde in Vienna

Author : Sandra Mayer
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004370463
Total Pages : 398 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (43 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Oscar Wilde in Vienna by : Sandra Mayer

Download or read book Oscar Wilde in Vienna written by Sandra Mayer and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2018-07-17 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Oscar Wilde in Vienna is the first book-length study in English of the reception of Oscar Wilde’s works in the German-speaking world. Charting the plays’ history on Viennese stages between 1903 and 2013, it casts a spotlight on the international reputation of one of the most popular English-language writers while contributing to Austrian cultural history in the long twentieth century. Drawing on extensive archival material, the book examines the appropriation of Wilde's plays against the background of political crises and social transformations. It unravels the mechanisms of cultural transfer and canonisation within an environment positioned — like Wilde himself — at the crossroads of centre and periphery, tradition and modernity.

Branding Books Across the Ages

Author : Helleke van den Braber
Publisher : Amsterdam University Press
ISBN 13 : 9048544408
Total Pages : 372 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (485 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Branding Books Across the Ages by : Helleke van den Braber

Download or read book Branding Books Across the Ages written by Helleke van den Braber and published by Amsterdam University Press. This book was released on 2021-04-20 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As marketing specialists know all too well, our experience of products is prefigured by brands: trademarks that identify a product and differentiate it from its competitors. This process of branding has hitherto gained little academic discussion in the field of literary studies. Literary authors and the texts they produce, though, are constantly 'branded': from the early modern period onwards, they have been both the object and the initiator of a complex marketing process. This book analyzes this branding process throughout the centuries, focusing on the case of the Netherlands. To what extent is our experience of Dutch literature prefigured by brands, and what role does branding play when introducing European authors in the Dutch literary field (or vice versa)? By answering these questions, the volume seeks to show how literary scholars can account for the phenomenon of branding.

The Mediaverse and Speculative Fiction Television

Author : Ashumi Shah
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3658437391
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (584 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis The Mediaverse and Speculative Fiction Television by : Ashumi Shah

Download or read book The Mediaverse and Speculative Fiction Television written by Ashumi Shah and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Herman Melville in Context

Author : Kevin J. Hayes
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1316761924
Total Pages : 697 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (167 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Herman Melville in Context by : Kevin J. Hayes

Download or read book Herman Melville in Context written by Kevin J. Hayes and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2018-01-11 with total page 697 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Herman Melville in Context provides the fullest introduction in one volume to the multifaceted life and times of Herman Melville, a towering figure in nineteenth-century American and world literature. The book grounds the study of Herman Melville's writings to the world that influenced their composition, publication and recognition, making it a valuable resource to scholars, teachers, students and general readers. Bringing together contributions covering a wide range of topics, the collection of essays covers the geographical, social, cultural and literary contexts of Melville's life and works, as well as its literary reception. Herman Melville in Context will enable readers to approach Melville's writings with fuller insight, and to read and understand them in a way that approximates the way they were read and understood in his time.

House of Usher

Author : Evert van Leeuwen
Publisher : Liverpool University Press
ISBN 13 : 1800347170
Total Pages : 97 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (3 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis House of Usher by : Evert van Leeuwen

Download or read book House of Usher written by Evert van Leeuwen and published by Liverpool University Press. This book was released on 2018-12-18 with total page 97 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study of Roger Corman’s House of Usher explores the film's narrative structure and imagery. Evert van Leeuwen shows how the use of specific techniques creates and sustains the atmosphere of gothic decay and situates horror icon Vincent Price’s performance in the context of the Romantic misfit and the postwar countercultural antihero.

The Specter and the Speculative

Author : Mae G. Henderson
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
ISBN 13 : 197883408X
Total Pages : 309 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (788 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis The Specter and the Speculative by : Mae G. Henderson

Download or read book The Specter and the Speculative written by Mae G. Henderson and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 2024-05-31 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Specter and the Speculative: Afterlives and Archives in the African Diaspora engages in a critical conversation about how historical subjects and historical texts within the African Diaspora are re-fashioned, re-animated, and re-articulated, as well as parodied, nostalgized, and defamiliarized, to establish an “afterlife” for African Atlantic identities and narratives. These essays focus on transnational, transdisciplinary, and transhistorical sites of memory and haunting—textual, visual, and embodied performances—in order to examine how these “living” archives circulate and imagine anew the meanings of prior narratives liberated from their original context. Individual essays examine how historical and literary performances—in addition to film, drama, music, dance, and material culture—thus revitalized, transcend and speak across temporal and spatial boundaries not only to reinstate traditional meanings, but also to motivate fresh commentary and critique. Emergent and established scholars representing diverse disciplines and fields of interest specifically engage under explored themes related to afterlives, archives, and haunting.

Michelangelo’s Vatican Pietà and its Afterlives

Author : Lisa M. Rafanelli
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 100083378X
Total Pages : 234 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (8 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Michelangelo’s Vatican Pietà and its Afterlives by : Lisa M. Rafanelli

Download or read book Michelangelo’s Vatican Pietà and its Afterlives written by Lisa M. Rafanelli and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2022-12-30 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers a fresh perspective on Michelangelo’s well-known masterpiece, the Vatican Pietà, by tracing the shifting meaning of the work of art over time. Lisa M. Rafanelli chronicles the object history of the Vatican Pietà and the active role played by its many reproductions. The sculpture has been on continuous view for over 500 years, during which time its cultural, theological, and artistic significance has shifted. Equally important is the fact that over its long life it has been relocated numerous times and has also been reproduced in images and objects produced both during Michelangelo’s lifetime and long after, described here as artistic progeny: large-scale, unique sculpted variants, smaller-scale statuettes, plaster and bronze casts, and engraved prints. The book will be of interest to scholars working in art history, Renaissance studies, early modern studies, religion, Christianity, and theology.

The Author's Effects

Author : Nicola J. Watson
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0192586823
Total Pages : 349 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (925 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis The Author's Effects by : Nicola J. Watson

Download or read book The Author's Effects written by Nicola J. Watson and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2020-01-09 with total page 349 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Author's Effects: On the Writer's House Museum is the first book to describe how the writer's house museum came into being as a widespread cultural phenomenon across Britain, Europe, and North America. Exploring the ways that authorship has been mythologised through the conventions of the writer's house museum, The Author's Effects anatomises the how and why of the emergence, establishment, and endurance of popular notions of authorship in relation to creativity. It traces how and why the writer's bodily remains, possessions, and spaces came to be treasured in the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, as a prelude to the appearance of formal writer's house museums. It ransacks more than 100 museums and archives to tell the stories of celebrated and paradigmatic relics—Burns' skull, Keats' hair, Petrarch's cat, Poe's raven, Brontë's bonnet, Dickinson's dress, Shakespeare's chair, Austen's desk, Woolf's spectacles, Hawthorne's window, Freud's mirror, Johnson's coffee-pot and Bulgakov's stove, amongst many others. It investigates houses within which nineteenth-century writers mythologised themselves and their work—Thoreau's cabin and Dumas' tower, Scott's Abbotsford and Irving's Sunnyside. And it tracks literary tourists of the past to such long-celebrated literary homes as Petrarch's Arquà, Rousseau's Ile St Pierre, and Shakespeare's Stratford to find out what they thought and felt and did, discovering deep continuities with the redevelopment of Shakespeare's New Place for 2016.

The Cambridge Companion to the Black Body in American Literature

Author : Cherene Sherrard-Johnson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1009204157
Total Pages : 331 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (92 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis The Cambridge Companion to the Black Body in American Literature by : Cherene Sherrard-Johnson

Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to the Black Body in American Literature written by Cherene Sherrard-Johnson and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2024-05-16 with total page 331 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This volume tracks and uncovers the Black body as a persistent presence and absence in American literature. It provides an invaluable guide for teachers and students interested in literary representations of Blackness and embodiment. It centers Black thinking about Black embodiment from current, diverse, and intersectional perspectives"--

Literary Careers in the Modern Era

Author : Guy Davidson
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137478500
Total Pages : 245 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (374 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Literary Careers in the Modern Era by : Guy Davidson

Download or read book Literary Careers in the Modern Era written by Guy Davidson and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-04-29 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Routledge Handbook of Public Diplomacy

Author : Nancy Snow
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429878958
Total Pages : 529 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (298 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Routledge Handbook of Public Diplomacy by : Nancy Snow

Download or read book Routledge Handbook of Public Diplomacy written by Nancy Snow and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-01-20 with total page 529 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The second edition of the Routledge Handbook of Public Diplomacy, co-edited by two leading scholars in the international relations subfield of public diplomacy, includes 16 more chapters from the first. Ten years later, a new global landscape of public diplomacy has taken shape, with major programs in graduate-level public diplomacy studies worldwide. What separates this handbook from others is its legacy and continuity from the first edition. This first edition line-up was more military-focused than this edition, a nod to the work of Philip M. Taylor, to whom this updated edition is dedicated. This edition includes US content, but all case studies are outside the United States, not only to appeal to a global audience of scholars and practitioners, but also as a way of offering something fresher than the US/UK-centric competition. In Parts 1–4, original contributors are retained, many with revised editions, but new faces emerge. Parts 5 and 6 include 16 global case studies in public diplomacy, expanding the number of contributors by ten. The concluding part of the book includes chapters on digital and corporate public diplomacy, and a signature final chapter on the noosphere and noopolitik as they relate to public diplomacy. Designed for a broad audience, the Routledge Handbook of Public Diplomacy is encyclopedic in its range and depth of content, yet is written in an accessible style that will appeal to both undergraduate and postgraduate students.

Celebrity

Author : Milly Williamson
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1509511431
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (95 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Celebrity by : Milly Williamson

Download or read book Celebrity written by Milly Williamson and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2016-10-18 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is a truism to suggest that celebrity pervades all areas of life today. The growth and expansion of celebrity culture in recent years has been accompanied by an explosion of studies of the social function of celebrity and investigations into the fascination of specific celebrities. And yet fundamental questions about what the system of celebrity means for our society have yet to be resolved: Is celebrity a democratization of fame or a powerful hierarchy built on exclusion? Is celebrity created through public demand or is it manufactured? Is the growth of celebrity a harmful dumbing down of culture or an expansion of the public sphere? Why has celebrity come to have such prominence in today’s expanding media? Milly Williamson unpacks these questions for students and researchers alike, re-examining some of the accepted explanations for celebrity culture. The book questions assumptions about the inevitability of the growth of celebrity culture, instead explaining how environments were created in which celebrity output flourished. It provides a compelling new history of the development of celebrity (both long-term and recent) which highlights the relationship between the economic function of celebrity in various media and entertainment industries and its changing social meanings and patterns of consumption.