Life Writing and Celebrity: Exploring Intersections

ISBN-13: 9781032086620 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 156 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.

Spis treści

Introduction – Life Writing and Celebrity: Exploring IntersectionsSandra Mayer and Julia Novak1. An Austrian Auden: A Media Construction StoryTimo Frühwirth2. Sergei Eisenstein as Seen by Peter Greenaway: A Dialectic Representation of an (Anti-)Great Film DirectorFátima Chinita3. Fictionalisation in Biography: Creating the Dickens MythRosemary Kay4. Visual Art as Celebrity Memoir: The Paradox of Peg Woffington’s Sick-bed PortraitAnnette Rubery5. Writing Celebrity as Disability: Las Meninas, Performing Dwarfs, and Michael Jackson Fan DayEva Sage Gordon6. ‘Boswellized From Mere Persons to Personages’: Arthur Stringer, Mary Pickford, and the Trouble with Celebrity Profile(r)sKatja Lee7. ‘Watergate-ing’ Norman Mailer’s Marilyn: Life Writing in Cultural ContextOline Eaton8. Pacts, Paratext, and Polyphony: Writing the Authorised Biography of Robert WyattMarcus O’Dair

O autorze

Sandra Mayer is a Research Fellow in English Literature at the University of Vienna, Austria, and the Oxford Centre for Life-Writing, UK. She has published widely on authorship and literary celebrity, (co)editing special issues on the theme for Celebrity Studies, Forum for Modern Language Studies, and Persona Studies.

Julia Novak is a Research Fellow at the Department of English at the University of Vienna, Austria. She has published extensively on poetry performance and biographical fiction, including the collection Experiments in Life Writing (2017). She is an editor of the European Journal of Life Writing.