Dealing with Authorship: Authors between Texts, Editors and Public Discourses

Dealing with Authorship: Authors between Texts, Editors and Public Discourses
Format
Hardback
Publisher
Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Country
United Kingdom
Published
23 February 2018
Pages
275
ISBN
9781527505605

Dealing with Authorship: Authors between Texts, Editors and Public Discourses

Literature and film generate symbolic as well as economic capital. As such, aesthetic productions exist in various contexts following contrasting rules. Which role(s) do authors and filmmakers play in positioning themselves in this conflictive relation?Bringing together fourteen essays by scholars from Germany, the USA, the UK and France, this volume examines the multiple ways in which the progressive (self-) fashioning of authors and filmmakers interacts with the public sphere, generating authorial postures, and thus arouses attention. It questions the autonomous nature of the artistic creation and highlights the parallels and differences between the more or less clear-cut national contexts, in order to elucidate the complexity of authorship from a multifaceted perspective, combining contributions from literary and cultural studies, as well as film, media, and communication studies. Dealing with Authorship, as a transversal venture, brings together reflections on leading critics, exploring works and postures of canonical and non-canonical authors and filmmakers. An uncommon and challenging picture of authorship is explored here, across national and international artistic fields that affect Africa, Europe and America. The volume raises the questions of cultural linkages between South and North, imbalances between the mainstream and the margins in an economic, literary or racial dimension, and, more broadly, the relation of power and agency between artists, editors, critics, publics, media and markets.

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