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...
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Hochschule für Wirtschaft und Umwelt Nürtingen-Geislingen, Bibliothek Nürtingen
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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. 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.