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Literary Stardom and Heavenly Gifts: Haruki Murakami (1949)
Full text linkFrom the volume's introduction: "That contemporary literary celebrity can be a global phenomenon is demonstrated by the example of Haruki Murakami. Globalization of literary production, Gaston Franssen reasons, has had major consequences for this author’s image: for instance, Murakami is frequently attacked in Japan by literary critics on account of the allegedly over-Western style and atmosphere that characterize his work, whereas he is frequently framed in Europe and the United States as an author who presents a penetrating analysis of Japanese culture. Intriguingly, Murakami boasts a broad fan base of loyal readers in both the West and in Japan, who will stand in line at bookstores for hours to buy his latest novel and who gather to share experiences at Murakami festivals. Franssen demonstrates that the author pits diffferent forms of literary authorship against each other in his work, expressing apparent criticism of the commercialization and mediatization of literature.
Introduction: Starring the Author
No full textLiterary celebrity is by now a familiar feat of contemporary literary culture, but it continues to raise complex questions about the history and development of fame, the interplay between the cultural marketplace and the official culture of critics and the canon, and the relation between authorial agency and public appropriation. This introduction addresses these questions by approaching literary celebrity as a merging of two discursive constructions: the celebrity-function and the author-function. By combining insights from celebrity studies, literary history and cultural memory studies, the introduction conceptualizes literary celebrity as a discursive construction with several variables, such as the author’s self-presentation, the circulation of his public identity, changing opinions on literature and writership, and the public afterlife of the author’s image
The Silence of the Celebrity: J.D. Salinger (1919–2010)
No full textAfter a youth spent in high-society circles and the incredible success of his debut novel The Catcher in the Rye (1951), J.D. Salinger withdrew from the literary limelight. His reclusiveness, however, made him only more famous. His worldly withdrawal became an important trademark: it led to a constant stream of gossip and wild speculations about his life and work. After his death, Salinger’s literary stardom is undiminished and has even found its way into popular culture. This chapter traces the construction of the Salinger myth that informs the author’s public persona. The chapter argues that the author’s reticence intensified the semantic and affective potential of his public image: by closing himself off, Salinger opened his authorial persona up to a wide range of interpretations
An empirical investigation of the tribes and their territories: Are research specialisms rural and urban?
No full textWe propose an operationalization of the rural and urban analogy introduced in Becher and Trowler (2001). According to them, a specialism is rural if it is organized into many, smaller topics of research, with higher author mobility among them, lower rate of collaboration and productivity, lower competition for resources and citation recognitions compared to an urban specialism. It is assumed that most humanities specialisms are rural while science specialisms are in general urban: we set to test this hypothesis empirically. We first propose an operationalization of the theory in most of its quantifiable aspects. We then consider specialisms from history, literature, computer science, biology, astronomy. Our results show that specialisms in the humanities present a sensibly lower citation and textual connectivity, in agreement with their organization into more, smaller topics per specialism, as suggested by the analogy. We argue that the intellectual organization of rural specialisms might indeed be qualitative different from urban ones, discouraging the straightforward application of citation-based indicators commonly applied to urban specialisms without a dedicated re-design in acknowledgement of these differences
Idolizing Authorship: Literary Celebrity and the Construction of Identity, 1800 to the Present
Full text linkThough these days, our celebrity culture tends to revolve around movie stars and pop musicians, there have been plenty of celebrity authors over the years and around the world. This volume brings together a number of contributors to look at how and why certain writers have attained celebrity throughout history. How were their images as celebrities constructed by themselves and in complicity with their fans? And how did that process and its effects differ from country to country and era to era
In vivo PET assay of functional P-gp in the blood-brain barrier
Full text linkLammertsma, A.A. [Promotor]Franssen, E.J.F. [Copromotor]Windhorst, A.D. [Copromotor
CHRONIC KIDNEY DISEASE RAAS blockade and diastolic heart failure in chronic kidney disease
No full text<p>New data from Ahmed et al. show that discharge prescriptions for renin-angiotensin-aldosterone inhibitor therapy are associated with a significant reduction in all-cause mortality in elderly patients with diastolic heart failure and chronic kidney disease (CKD). These observational data support the case for prospective studies of RAAS blockade in patients with CKD and diastolic heart failure. Franssen, C. F. M. & Navis, G. Nat. Rev. Nephrol. 9, 190-192 (2013); published online 12 March 2013; doi:10.1038/nrneph.2013.39</p>
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