Reading the contemporary author : narrative, authority, fictionality / edited by Alison Gibbons and Elizabeth King.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Gibbons, Alison, editor.

King, Elizabeth, 1990- editor.

JSTOR (Online Service)

Series:

Frontiers of narrative

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Authorship.

Autobiography--Authorship.

Autobiography.

Authors in literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (291 pages) : illustrations

Place of Publication:

Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, [2023]

Contents:

Introduction: Authorship in Literary Criticism and Narrative Theory / Elizabeth King and Alison Gibbons

1. The Public Intellectual on Stage: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie / Odile Heynders

2. The Pseudonymic Author and Elena Ferrante's Evasions of Gender / Jaclyn Partyka

3. The Permissible Author: Cultural Politics and the Market Economy of the Literary Sphere / Christopher González

4. Authorship and Autobiography / Arnaud Schmitt

5. "I wanted to be present to hear her last words": A Cognitive Approach to Multimodal Autobiographical Elegy / Alison Gibbons

6. The Author as a Work of Art: Graphic Memoir, Style, and Authorial Agents / Nancy Pedri

7. Radical Realism and Modes of Fictionality in Contemporary Auto/Biographical Literature / Fiona Doloughan

8. Reconstructing the Author through Biofiction's Anchored Imagination / Michael Lackey and Laura Cernat

9. The Anxiety of Authorship: Novelists as Narrators / Paul Dawson

10. Dead Authors Tell No Tales: The Ailing Author-Character in Contemporary Novels about Novelists / Elizabeth King

11. The Author beyond 'the implied author': From Postclassical to Postcritical Narratology / Stefan Kjerkegaard.

Notes:

Electronic reproduction. New York Available via World Wide Web.

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Print version: Reading the contemporary author.

ISBN:

9781496238153

149623815X

Publisher Number:

40032083169

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.