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

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Gibbons, Alison, editor.

King, Elizabeth, 1990- editor.

Series:

Frontiers of narrative.

Frontiers of Narrative Series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Authors in literature.

Autobiography--Authorship.

Autobiography.

Genre:

Essays.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (291 pages)

Place of Publication:

Lincoln, Nebraska : University of Nebraska Press, [2023]

Summary:

Reading the Contemporary Author brings together leading scholars in cultural theory, literary criticism, stylistics, narratology, comparative literature, and autobiography studies to interrogate how we read the contemporary author in public and cultural life, in life writing, and in literature.

Contents:

Cover Page

Series Page

Title Page

Copyright Page

Contents

Illustrations

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Part 1. The Author on the World Stage

1. The Public Intellectual on Stage

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

3. The Permissible Author

Part 2. The Author in the Mirror

4. Authorship and Autobiography

5. A Cognitive Approach to Multimodal Autobiographical Elegy

6. The Author as a Work of Art

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

Part 3. The Author on the Page

8. Reconstructing the Author through Biofiction's Anchored Imagination

9. The Anxiety of Authorship

10. Dead Authors Tell No Tales

Coda

Beyond the "Implied Author," from Postclassical to Postcritical Narratology

Contributors

Index

Series List.

Notes:

Includes index.

Description based on print version record.

Other Format:

Print version: Gibbons, Alison Reading the Contemporary Author

ISBN:

9781496238146

1496238141

9781496238153

149623815X

OCLC:

1411308055