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Post-War British Women Writers and their Cultural Impact: A Quantitative Approach
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From pilgrimage to picaresque: dimensions of mobility in late medieval and early modern English literature
No full text'The musique concrète of civilization' : responding to technological and cultural change in postwar British literature
No full textAuthorship as cultural performance: new perspectives in authorship studies
Get PDFThis article proposes a performative model of authorship, based on the historical alternation between predominantly 'weak' and 'strong' author concepts and related practices of writing, publication and reading. Based on this model, we give a brief overview of the historical development of such author concepts in English literature from the Middle Ages to the twentieth century. We argue for a more holistic approach to authorship within a cultural topography, comprising social contexts, technological and media factors, and other cultural developments, such as the distinction between privacy and the public sphere
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