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Performing authorship : strategies of "Becoming an author" in the works of Paul Auster, Candice Breitz, Sophie Calle, and Jonathan Safran Foer / Sonja Longolius.
Van Pelt Library PS228.A88 L65 2016
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Longolius, Sonja, 1978-
- Series:
- Culture & theory
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Auster, Paul, 1947-2024--Criticism and interpretation.
- Auster, Paul.
- Foer, Jonathan Safran, 1977---Criticism and interpretation.
- Foer, Jonathan Safran.
- Breitz, Candice--Criticism and interpretation.
- Breitz, Candice.
- Calle, Sophie--Criticism and interpretation.
- Calle, Sophie.
- Foer, Jonathan Safran, 1977-.
- Auster, Paul, 1947-2024.
- Authorship in literature.
- Authorship.
- Criticism and interpretation.
- Physical Description:
- 284 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 23 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Bielefeld : Transcript, [2016]
- Summary:
- Authors do not only create artworks. In the process of creating, they simultaneously bring to life their authorial personae. Approaching this phenomenon from an interdisciplinary point of view, Sonja Longolius develops a concept of "performative authorship" by examining different strategies of becoming an author. In regard to the notion of her concept, this work offers a critical and comparative analysis of the works of Paul Auster, Candice Breitz, Sophie Calle, and Jonathan Safran Foer. Specifically, Auster/Calle and Breitz/Foer form a generational pair of opposites, enabling a discussion of postmodern and post-postmodern artistic strategies of "performative authorship". Book jacket.
- Contents:
- Positioning 51
- Auto/Biography 52
- He: The Invention of Solitude 61
- I: Hand to Mouth 75
- You: Winter Journal 83
- Self/Portrait 98
- "Factum" 107
- True Stories I 120
- Eating Animals 134
- Staging 141
- Stage Names 144
- Staging Oneself 155
- Everything Is Illuminated 155
- "City of Glass" 164
- "The Detective" 173
- Individual Mythologies 186
- True Stories II 194
- The Red Notebook: True Stories 200
- Playing 205
- Playing Authorial Games 209
- A Convergence of Birds 210
- "King" and "Queen" 217
- Authors in Collaboration 226
- The Story of My Typewriter 227
- Double Game 234
- Tree of Codes 260.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references.
- ISBN:
- 9783837634600
- 3837634604
- OCLC:
- 947817100
- Publisher Number:
- 99968947753
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