Portraits of the Artist as a Young Thing In British, Irish and Canadian Fiction after 1945

The author is dead; long live the author. In a time when discourses, words and structures determine the discussion about literary texts, paradoxically, the figure of the artist looms large in novels, short stories, movies and plays. In a post-Barthesian age (Scherzinger) the figure of the artist is ascribed more and more significance. While the portraits of the artist as a young man are well-researched and documented, female artist figures in literature(s) in English are still more or less neglected. This volume of anglistik & englischunterricht attempts to fill the gap. The focus of the essays lies, firstly, on the (de-)constructions of gender, secondly, the complex self-reflexive functions of the artist figures and, thirdly, on the negotiations of cultural faultlines.

Summary

The author is dead; long live the author. In a time when discourses, words and structures determine the discussion about literary texts, paradoxically, the figure of the artist looms large in novels, short stories, movies and plays. In a “post-Barthesian age” (Scherzinger) the figure of the artist is ascribed more and more significance. While the portraits of the artist as a young man are well-researched and documented, female artist figures in literature(s) in English are still more or less neglected. This volume of anglistik & englischunterricht attempts to fill the gap. The focus of the essays lies, firstly, on the (de-)constructions of gender, secondly, the complex self-reflexive functions of the artist figures and, thirdly, on the negotiations of cultural faultlines.

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• Assisted by: Anette Pankratz (Editor), Annett Pankratz (Editor), Annette Pankratz (Editor), Puschmann-Nalenz (Editor), Puschmann-Nalenz (Editor), Barbara Puschmann-Nalenz (Editor)
• Publisher: Universitätsverlag Winter
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.06.2012
• EAN: 9783825360597
• ISBN: 978-3-8253-6059-7
• No. of pages: 320
• Weight: 394 g
• Series: Anglistik & Englischunterricht; Anglistik & Englischunterricht
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies; Lessing, Doris, Irische Literatur, McEwan, Ian, Atwood, Margaret, Kanadische Literatur, Gender Studies, Lively, Penelope, Autor (als literarische Figur)