World Authorship

Inbunden, Engelska, 2020

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Beskrivning

The original essays in Oxford Twenty-First Century Approaches to Literature mean to provoke rather than reassure, to challenge rather than codify. Instead of summarizing existing knowledge, scholars working in the field aim at opening fresh discussion; instead of emphasizing settled consensus they direct their readers to areas of enlivened and unresolved debate.Booksellers, authors, and academics have been talking about world literature since Goethe made the term fashionable in the early nineteenth century. Yet amidst all the talk of books that 'circulate' and literature as a kind of universal property that can function as a 'window on the world', how do we account for the people who live in real places, and who write, translate, market, and read the texts that travel on these global journeys? World Authorship breaks new ground by showing how to bring together the real-world contexts of authorship with the literary worlds of fiction.Written by world-leading academics and creative professionals including authors, translators, publishers, editors, prize jurors, and literary festival organizers, World Authorship updates Michael Foucault's 'author function' by significantly expanding the network of people and practices involved in literature. It covers keyword aspects of world authorship, grounding them in the study of actual literary texts to illuminate how literature is shared and made in different parts of the world and at different times in history. At the heart of all contributions, however, is one key question: where is the human element in world literature? By covering everything from 'Beginnings' to 'Voice', World Authorship provides the answer.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2020-10-01
Mått:179 x 250 x 30 mm
Vikt:930 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Oxford Twenty-First Century Approaches to Literature
Antal sidor:420
Förlag:OUP OXFORD
ISBN:9780198819653

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Tobias Boes is Associate Professor of German at the University of Notre Dame, United States. Trained in Comparative Literature, he specializes in the modernist period, the theory and history of the novel, and in cultural interactions between Germany and the world at large. Major publications include Formative Fictions: Nationalism, Cosmopolitanism, and the Bildungsroman (Cornell University Press, 2012) and Thomas Mann's War: Literature, Politics, and the World Republic of Letters (Cornell University Press, 2019).Rebecca Braun is Professor of Modern Languages and Creative Futures at Lancaster University, United Kingdom, where she also directs the multi-disciplinary Institute for Social Futures. Her research ranges across languages and cultures to explore how creative practice can shape our engagement with societies of the future. She has published widely on practices of authorship around the world, and with particular expertise in twentieth and twenty-first-century German-language writing. Major publications include a 2016 special issue of Celebrity Studies on literary celebrity (co-edited with Emily Spiers) and the forthcoming Authors and the World: Placing Literature in Twentieth and Twenty-First Century Germany. Emily Spiers is Lecturer in Creative Futures at Lancaster University, United Kingdom. Her work focuses on future-oriented, innovative trends in communicative and literary practices. She explores how futures are being envisaged, anticipated and made through art and literature -- and how creative narratives can help articulate multiple futures in fields as diverse as defence, education and climate change. Major publications include a 2016 special issue of Celebrity Studies on literary celebrity (co-edited with Rebecca Braun), and Pop-Feminist Narratives: The Female Subject under Neoliberalism in North America, Britain, and Germany (Oxford University Press, 2018)

Innehållsförteckning

1: Rebecca Braun: Introduction 2: Alexander Beecroft: Beginnings: A World History of Authorship 3: Rebecca Braun: Celebrity: On the Different Publics of World Authorship 4: Alexandra Harrington: Censorship: The Challenge of Writing in Oppressive Regimes 5: Sondra Bacharach: Collaboration: Re-thinking Origins and Ownership 6: Ra Page: Commissions: The Politics of Origin and Market 7: Beverley Nambozo Nsengiyunva: Communities: Forging the Voices of Poets in Africa 8: Benoît Peeters: Death: On Barthes's Images of Authorship without Authority 9: Daniel Punday: Digital Writing: Authorship and Platform 10: Benedict Schofield: Engagement: Authoring European Futures 11: Gisèle Sapiro: Festivals: Constructing an Alternative Public Sphere 12: Michel Hockx: Independence: Online Experimental Fiction in China 13: Nathalie Carré: Language: Digital Technologies Diversifying World Authorship 14: César Domínguez: Law: Making Authorial Personhood for the World 15: Chidi Ukwu: Media: Channels for New Kinds of Authorship in Africa 16: Tobias Boes: Nation: Authors as Exemplars of Political Communities 17: Luis Bravo: Networks: Poetry, Festivals, and Information Technology in Latin America, 1993-2017 18: Emily Spiers: Performance: Worlding Literature through Spoken-Word Poetry 19: Susan Bassnett: Popularity: Authorship and Audiences over Time 20: Daniel Hahn: Prizes: A Personal View of the UK Awards Industry Today 21: Zahid Hussain: Readers: The Space Between Us All 22: Sridhar Aghalaya in conversation with Emily Spiers: Representation: The Role of the Literary Agent in India 23: Jeffrey R. Di Leo: Self-Publishing: Transforming Ways of Writing and Reading 24: Karen Leeder: Translation: Michael Krüger and Paul Muldoon in Conversation 25: George Green and Graham Mort: Universities: Creating Authors through Higher Education 26: Ulrike Almut Sandig: Voice: I am My Own Song From Offstage