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In this book, Lorraine York examines the figure of the celebrity who expresses discomfort with his or her intense condition of social visibility. Bringing together the fields of celebrity studies and what Ann Cvetkovich has called the “affective turn in cultural studies”, York studies the mixed affect of reluctance, as it is performed by public figures in the entertainment industries. Setting aside the question of whether these performances are offered “in good faith” or not, York theorizes reluctance as the affective meeting ground of seemingly opposite emotions: disinclination and inclination. The figures under study in this book are John Cusack, Robert De Niro, and Daniel Craig—three white, straight, cis-gendered-male cinematic stars who have persistently and publicly expressed a feeling of reluctance about their celebrity. York examines how the performance of reluctance, which is generally admired in celebrities, builds up cultural prestige that can then be turned to other purposes. .

Celebrities --- Motion picture actors and actresses --- Fame --- Film actors --- Film stars --- Motion picture stars --- Movie stars --- Moving-picture actors and actresses --- Stars, Movie --- Celebrity culture --- Celebs --- Cult of celebrity --- Famous people --- Famous persons --- Illustrious people --- Well-known people --- Social aspects. --- Popular Culture. --- Motion pictures and television. --- Theater. --- Actors. --- Popular Culture . --- Screen Studies. --- Performers and Practitioners. --- Stage actors --- Theater actors --- Theatrical actors --- Artists --- Entertainers --- Theater --- Dramatics --- Histrionics --- Professional theater --- Stage --- Theatre --- Performing arts --- Acting --- Actors --- Moving-pictures and television --- Television and motion pictures --- Television --- Culture, Popular --- Mass culture --- Pop culture --- Popular arts --- Communication --- Intellectual life --- Mass society --- Recreation --- Culture

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Ethics and Affects in the Fiction of Alice Munro explores the representation of embodied ethics and affects in Alice Munro’s writing. The collection illustrates how Munro’s short stories powerfully intersect with important theoretical trends in literary studies, including affect studies, ethical criticism, age studies, disability studies, animal studies, and posthumanism. These essays offer us an Alice Munro who is not the kindly Canadian icon reinforcing small-town verities who was celebrated and perpetuated in acts of national pedagogy with her Nobel Prize win; they ponder, instead, an edgier, messier Munro whose fictions of affective and ethical perplexities disturb rather than comfort. In Munro’s fiction, unruly embodiments and affects interfere with normative identity and humanist conventions of the human based on reason and rationality, destabilizing prevailing gender and sexual politics, ethical responsibilities, and affective economies. As these essays make clear, Munro’s fiction reminds us of the consequences of everyday affects and the extraordinary ordinariness of the ethical encounters we engage again and again. .

Ethics in literature. --- Munro, Alice, --- Laidlaw, Alice Ann, --- מאנרו, אליס, --- מונרו, אליס, --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Literature-Philosophy. --- Literature, Modern-20th century. --- America-Literatures. --- Literary Theory. --- Contemporary Literature. --- North American Literature. --- Literature—Philosophy. --- Literature, Modern—20th century. --- Literature, Modern—21st century. --- America—Literatures. --- Literature --- Literature, Modern --- America --- Literature and philosophy --- Philosophy and literature --- Philosophy. --- 20th century. --- 21st century. --- Literatures. --- Theory

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Literary Celebrity in Canada explores that space, drawing on current theories of celebrity and questioning their tendency to view fame as an empty phenomenon.

Authorship --- Authors, Canadian --- Celebrities --- Authors and readers --- Literature and society --- Literature --- Literature and sociology --- Society and literature --- Sociology and literature --- Sociolinguistics --- Readers and authors --- Authoring (Authorship) --- Writing (Authorship) --- Celebrity culture --- Celebs --- Cult of celebrity --- Famous people --- Famous persons --- Illustrious people --- Well-known people --- Persons --- Fan clubs --- Canadian authors --- Social aspects --- History --- Canada. --- Canada (Province) --- Canadae --- Ceanada --- Chanada --- Chanadey --- Dominio del Canadá --- Dominion of Canada --- Jianada --- Kʻaenada --- Kaineḍā --- Kanada --- Ḳanadah --- Kanadaja --- Kanadas --- Ḳanade --- Kanado --- Kanakā --- Province of Canada --- Republica de Canadá --- Yn Chanadey

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The dismantling of 'Understanding Canada' - an international program eliminated by Canada's Conservative government in 2012 - posed a tremendous potential setback for Canadianists. Yet Canadian writers continue to be celebrated globally by popular and academic audiences alike. Twenty scholars speak to the government's diplomatic and economic about-face and its implications for representations of Canadian writing within and outside Canada's borders. The contributors to this volume remind us of the obstacles facing transnational intellectual exchange, but also salute scholars' persistence despite these obstacles.

Canadian Literature --- National Characteristics In Literature --- Literary Criticism --- Canadian literature --- National characteristics in literature --- Literary criticism