UID:
almafu_9961633084002883
Format:
1 online resource (516 pages)
Edition:
First edition.
ISBN:
3-11-105616-3
Content:
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.
Note:
Intro -- Contents -- Introduction: How Literature Makes Authors -- Part I Literary Authorship in History and Theory -- 1 Towards a Literary History of Literary Authorship -- 2 Authors, Works, Audiences: Conceptual Foundations -- Part II Author-Making and Social Form in the Nineteenth Century -- 3 Lost Illusions: Balzac's Brutal Materialism -- 4 Compromise Formation in the English Literary Bildungsroman -- 5 The Novel of Allopoetic Deformation: Herman Melville's Pierre (1852) -- 6 "Sign it like a queen": Writing Female Authors in the Victorian Novel -- 7 Starving in the Reading Room: Precarious Economies of Authorship in Late Victorian Fiction -- 8 Curious Double Lives: Puzzles of Authorship in James, Kipling, and Beerbohm -- Part III Modernist Author Fictions -- 9 The Ambivalence of Promise in Arthur Machen, E. M. Forster, and Henry Green -- 10 "Do you seriously believe in literature?" Comic Turns from Aldous Huxley to Kingsley Amis -- 11 "Writing's a mug's game": Novels of Resentment and Regeneration in the 1930s and 1940s -- 12 Working Women: Figurations of Female Authorship in Postwar Britain -- Part IV From Postmodernist Metafiction to Contemporary Autofiction -- 13 The Validity of Authorship: Postwar British Metafiction from Muriel Spark to William Golding -- 14 "The unreckoned consequences of art": Authorial Realism in Munro, Carver, Roth, and Moore -- 15 Authorship Horror: Stephen King's Misery (1987) -- 16 The Tremor of Genre: Making and Unmaking Writers in Suspense Fiction -- 17 Economies of Authorship in Contemporary (Auto‐)Fiction: Between Expressivism and Institutionalism -- Conclusion -- Appendix 1: An Incomplete List of Authorship Narratives, 1800 -2022 -- Appendix 2: Quantitative Survey, 1800- 2022 -- List of Illustrations and Tables -- Glossary -- Acknowledgements -- References -- Index.
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Issued also in print.
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9783111056159
Language:
English
DOI:
10.1515/9783111056166
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