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Informationen zum Autor Leigh Dale, University of Wollongong, AustraliaLaura Dietz, Anglia Ruskin University, UKGuy Davidson, University of Wollongong, AustraliaNicola Evans, University of Wollongong, AustraliaChene Heady, Longwood University, USAElizabeth McMahon, University of New South Wales, AustraliaJohn O'Brien, independent scholar, GermanyMohanalakshmi Rajakumar, Northwestern University, Qatar.Rumsha Shahzad, Georgetown University SFS, Qatar.Paul Sharrad, University of Wollongong, AustraliaJeff Solomon, University of Southern California, USA Klappentext This is the first study of the shape and diversity of the literary career in the 20th and 21st centuries. Bringing together essays on a wide range of authors from Australia, Canada, the United States and the United Kingdom, the book investigates how literary careers are made and unmade, and how norms of authorship are shifting in the digital era. Zusammenfassung This is the first study of the shape and diversity of the literary career in the 20th and 21st centuries. Bringing together essays on a wide range of authors from Australia! Canada! the United States and the United Kingdom! the book investigates how literary careers are made and unmade! and how norms of authorship are shifting in the digital era. Inhaltsverzeichnis AcknowledgementsNotes on the Contributors1. Introduction: Brilliant Careers?; Guy Davidson and Nicola Evans PART I: CAREER/SUCCESS2. An Apologia for Buffoons: The Paradox of G.K. Chesterton's Literary Authority in his Autobiography; Chene Heady3. From the Audience to the Stage: Literary Celebrity and Literary Career in Norman Mailer's ; John O'Brien4. The Retrospective Stage: Late Career Fiction and Authorial Self-Renewal; Hywel Dix PART II: QUEER CAREERS5. Broadly Queer and Specifically Gay: The Literary Celebrity and Literary Career of Gertrude Stein; Jeff Solomon6. Sexuality and Shame in James Baldwin's Career; Guy Davidson7. Parallel:Parallax - The Melancholy Dialectics of Dionne Brand; Elizabeth McMahon8. Christos Tsolkias, 'Career,' and Anti-Capitalist Critique; Leigh Dale PART III: CHANGING CONTEXTS: RETHINKING HOW LITERARY CAREERS ARE MADE9. Brilliant or Bust? Tom Keneally's Literary Career; Paul Sharrad10. Inside the Writer's Room, the Artist's Studio and ; Nicola Evans 11. She needs a Website of her Own: The 'Indie' Woman Writer and Contemporary Publishing; Mohanalakshmi Rajakumar and Rumsha Shahzad12. Who are you Calling an Author? Changing Definitions of Career Legitimacy for Novelists in the Digital Era; Laura DietzBibliographyIndex ...
