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Literary Stardom and Heavenly Gifts: Haruki Murakami (1949)
Get PDFFrom 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
Gaston Franssen, Rick Honings (eds.), Idolizing Authorship: Literary Celebrity and the Construction of Identity, 1800 to the Present (Amsterdam University Press, 2017)
No full textA review of Gaston Franssen, Rick Honings (eds.), Idolizing Authorship: Literary Celebrity and the Construction of Identity, 1800 to the Present, Amsterdam University Press, Amsterdam, 2017, 282 pp. € 89.</jats:p
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
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No full textAuthor: Gaston GruberKurzfassung in deutscher SpracheMasterarbeit Universität Innsbruck 202
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No full textAuthor: Gaston GruberKurzfassung in deutscher SpracheMasterarbeit Universität Innsbruck 202
Allegories of Branding:How to Successfully Fail Charles Bukowski
Get PDFThe American author Charles Bukowski (1904-1984) has become an authorial brand – that is, a complex symbol that projects a set of associations onto commercial products. This brand emerges from interactions between the fields of creation, production, and reception. Bukowski himself fuelled this interaction by constructing a recognizable, albeit contradictory public figure: that of the successful loser. Focusing on the Dutch reception of Bukowski as a case study, I demonstrate how cultural producers and suppliers capitalize on this figure, invoking it to suggest that their products allow consumers to partake in the Bukowskian lifestyle. However, the contradictions inherent in the persona of the successful loser subvert this process. As a consequence, instances of Bukowskian branding appear as normative failures, as their very success belies the values associated with the author
Chronicles of Oklahoma
Get PDFArticle provides a biographical tribute to physician, author, journal editor, and member of the Oklahoma Historical Society, Lewis Jefferson Moorman, M. D. Gaston Litton describes the lasting impact Moorman left on Oklahoma medical history through his contributions
Gaston Bachelard e a sedução poética: a criação de um filosofar onírico
Get PDFO autor busca caracterizar a trajetória de Gaston Bachelard no universo poético de seu tempo e as implicações desse procedimento filosófico na criação de um filosofar onírico.The author aims to characterize the trajectory of Gaston Bachelard on the poetic universe of his time and the implications of this philosophical proceeding in the creation of an ‘onírico’ thinking
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