{"product_id":"reading-the-contemporary-author-narrative-authority-fictionality-hardback-9781496234612","title":"Reading the Contemporary Author; Narrative, Authority, Fictionality (Hardback) 9781496234612","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eReading the Contemporary Author\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eNarrative, Authority, Fictionality\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eAlison Gibbons (Edited by), Elizabeth King (Edited by)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781496234612\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 1 December 2023\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e290 pages, 4 illustrations, 5 diagrams, index\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 2.6 cm, 0.58 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e“A brilliant exploration of new manifestations of authorship in the twenty-first century. Alison Gibbons and Elizabeth King provide a powerful through line that reveals transformations in how we approach the subjectivity and intent of the author amid the digital revolution, the relation to identity politics, complex interactions of fact and fiction, and the role of authorial reflexivity as a process of epistemological and self-examination that extends beyond metafictional play. Through an original outside-in structure, \u003ci\u003eReading the Contemporary Author\u003c\/i\u003e is a compelling narratological inquiry into how changing concepts of the author have played a central, mediating role in how we read and interpret the increasingly uncertain thresholds of texts and contemporary life.”-Virginia Newhall Rademacher, author of \u003ci\u003eDerivative Lives: Biofiction, Uncertainty, and Speculative Risk in Contemporary Spanish Narrative\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e \u003cdiv\u003e“The articles in this valuable work provide a foray into the multifarious nature of contemporary authorship, demonstrating that, although our conception of authorship has taken many forms and will take many more, the author always remains a pivotal, often controversial, site of analysis.”-Marjorie Worthington, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Story of “Me”: Contemporary American Autofiction\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e \u003cdiv\u003e“An important contribution to the knowledge of contemporary authorship but also to contemporary narrativity and contemporary narrative genres, including biofiction, autofiction, memoir, novels featuring novelist narrators, and more.”-Sylvie Patron, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Narrator: A Problem in Narrative Theory\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eReaders, literary critics, and theorists alike have long demonstrated an abiding fascination with the author, both as a real person-an artist and creator-and as a theoretical concept that shapes the way we read literary works. Whether anonymous, pseudonymous, or trending on social media, authors continue to be an object of critical and readerly interest. Yet theories surrounding authorship have yet to be satisfactorily updated to register the changes wrought on the literary sphere by the advent of the digital age, the recent turn to autofiction, and the current literary climate more generally. In \u003ci\u003eReading the Contemporary Author\u003c\/i\u003e the contributors look back on the long history of theorizing the author and offer innovative new approaches for understanding this elusive figure.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Mapping the contours of the vast territory that is contemporary authorship, this collection investigates authorship in the context of narrative genres ranging from memoir and autobiographically informed texts to biofiction and novels featuring novelist narrators and characters. Bringing together the perspectives of leading scholars in narratology, cultural theory, literary criticism, stylistics, comparative literature, and autobiography studies, \u003ci\u003eReading the Contemporary Author\u003c\/i\u003e demonstrates that a variety of interdisciplinary viewpoints and critical stances are necessary to capture the multifaceted nature of contemporary authorship.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"University of Nebraska Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52600259281176,"sku":"9781496234612","price":41.89,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/reading-the-contemporary-author-narrative-authority-fictionality-hardback-9781496234612","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}