Life Writing and Celebrity: Exploring Intersections

ISBN-13: 9780367355647 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 146 str.

Sandra Mayer; Julia Novak

Opis

This book examines the relationship between life writing and celebrity in English-language and comparative literary and cultural contexts, focusing on historical as well as contemporary auto/biographical subjects. This book was originally published as a special issue of Life Writing.

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Introduction – Life Writing and Celebrity: Exploring Intersections Sandra Mayer and Julia Novak 1. An Austrian Auden: A Media Construction Story Timo Frühwirth 2. Sergei Eisenstein as Seen by Peter Greenaway: A Dialectic Representation of an (Anti-)Great Film Director Fátima Chinita 3. Fictionalisation in Biography: Creating the Dickens Myth Rosemary Kay 4. Visual Art as Celebrity Memoir: The Paradox of Peg Woffington’s Sick-bed Portrait Annette Rubery 5. Writing Celebrity as Disability: Las Meninas, Performing Dwarfs, and Michael Jackson Fan Day Eva Sage Gordon 6. ‘Boswellized From Mere Persons to Personages’: Arthur Stringer, Mary Pickford, and the Trouble with Celebrity Profile(r)s Katja Lee 7. ‘Watergate-ing’ Norman Mailer’s Marilyn: Life Writing in Cultural Context Oline Eaton 8. Pacts, Paratext, and Polyphony: Writing the Authorised Biography of Robert Wyatt Marcus O’Dair