Author Fictions - Narrative Representations of Literary Authorship since 1800

Fictional novelists and other author characters have been a staple of novels and stories from the early nineteenth century onwards. What is it that attracts authors to representing their own kind in fiction? Author Fictions addresses this question from a theoretical and historical perspective. Narrative representations of literary authorship not only reflect the aesthetic convictions and social conditions of their actual authors or their time; they also take an active part in negotiating and shaping these conditions. The book unfolds the history of such ‘author fictions’ in European and North American texts since the early nineteenth century as a literary history of literary authorship, ranging from the Victorian bildungsroman to contemporary autofiction. It combines rhetorical and sociological approaches to answer the question how literature makes authors. Identifying ‘author fictions’ as narratives that address the fragile material conditions of literary creation in the actual and symbolic economies of production, Ingo Berensmeyer explores how these texts elaborate and manipulate concepts and models of authorship. This book will be relevant to English, American and comparative literary studies and to anyone interested in the topic of literary authorship.

General

Imprint:	De Gruyter
Country of origin:	Germany
Release date:	September 2023
First published:	2023
Authors:	Ingo Berensmeyer
Dimensions:	230 x 155mm (L x W)
Pages:	435
ISBN-13:	978-3-11-105615-9
Categories:	Books
LSN:	3-11-105615-5
Barcode:	9783111056159

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