Margaret Atwood and the labour of literary celebrity
Published:
c2013
Publisher:
University of Toronto Press, Toronto [Ont.]
This informative study calls overdue attention to the ways in which literary celebrity is the result not only of a writer's creativity and hard work, but also of an ongoing collaborative effort among professionals to help maintain the writer's place...
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This informative study calls overdue attention to the ways in which literary celebrity is the result not only of a writer's creativity and hard work, but also of an ongoing collaborative effort among professionals to help maintain the writer's place in the public eye. YorkLorraine: Lorraine Yorkis the Senator William McMaster Chair in Canadian Literature and Culture and a professor in the Department of English and Cultural Studies at McMaster University. This informative study calls overdue attention to the ways in which literary celebrity is the result not only of a writer's creativity and hard work, but also of an ongoing collaborative effort among professionals to help maintain the writer's place in the public eye
Online Ressource (viii, 220 p.),
ill., digital file.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (p. [201]-213) and index
Introduction: The Dead Moose and the Publishing Pie1 "You Are a Necessity of Life": Atwood and Literary Agency -- 2 "Who's the Very Best at Spellin'?": Editing Margaret Atwood -- 3 Keeping O.W. Toad Hopping Along: The Atwood Office -- 4 MargaretAtwood: Interactive Media and the Management of Literary Celebrity -- 5 "The Cloak of Visibility": Art and Industry in the Works of Margaret Atwood -- Postscript: Margaret Atwood for Mayor? Literary Celebrity in the Civic Realm.
Margaret Atwood and the labour of literary celebrity
Includes bibliographical references (p. [201]-213) and index
Introduction: The Dead Moose and the Publishing Pie -- 1 "You Are a Necessity of Life": Atwood and Literary Agency -- 2 "Who's the Very Best at Spellin'?": Editing Margaret Atwood -- 3 Keeping O.W. Toad Hopping Along: The Atwood Office -- 4 @MargaretAtwood: Interactive Media and the Management of Literary Celebrity -- 5 "The Cloak of Visibility": Art and Industry in the Works of Margaret Atwood -- Postscript: Margaret Atwood for Mayor? Literary Celebrity in the Civic Realm
This informative study calls overdue attention to the ways in which literary celebrity is the result not only of a writer's creativity and hard work, but also of an ongoing collaborative effort among professionals to help maintain the writer's place in the public eye