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ISBN: 1849645256 0585425876 9780585425870 9781849645256 0745315194 9780745315195 0745315240 9780745315249 Year: 2000 Publisher: Pluto Press
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In America, authors are as likely to be seen on television talk shows or magazine covers as in the more traditional settings of literary festivals or book signings. Is this literary celebrity just another result of 'dumbing down'? Yet another example of the mass media turning everything into entertainment? Or is it a much more unstable, complex phenomenon? And what does the American experience tell us about the future of British literary celebrity?In Star Authors, Joe Moran shows how publishers, the media and authors themselves create and disseminate literary celebrity. He looks at such famous contemporary authors as Toni Morrison, J.D. Salinger, Thomas Pynchon, Don DeLillo, John Updike, Philip Roth, Kathy Acker, Nicholson Baker, Paul Auster and Jay McInerney. Through an examination of their own work, biographical information, media representations and promotional material, Moran illustrates the nature of modern literary celebrity. He argues that authors actively negotiate their own celebrity rather than simply having it imposed upon them - from reclusive authors such as Salinger and Pynchon, famed for their very lack of public engagement, to media-friendly authors such as Updike and McInerney. Star Authors analyses literary celebrity in the context of the historical links between literature, advertising and publicity in America; the economics of literary production; and the cultural capital involved in the marketing and consumption of books and authors.
American literature --- Authors and readers --- Popular culture --- Celebrities --- Canon (Literature) --- Classics, Literary --- Literary canon --- Literary classics --- Best books --- Criticism --- Literature --- Readers and authors --- Authorship --- History and criticism. --- History --- History and criticism --- Acker, Kathy, --- DeLillo, Don --- Updike, John --- Roth, Philip --- Roth, Philip Milton --- Apdajk, Džon --- Apdaĭk, Dzhon --- אפדייק, ג"ון --- أبدايك، جون --- Lillo, Don De --- Делилло, Дон --- דלילו, דון --- דלילו, דן --- DeLillo, Donald Richard --- Birdwell, Cleo --- Fear, Clay, --- Black Tarantula, --- Appreciation --- Rʺut, Bhilip --- Рот, Филип --- Rot, Filip --- רות, פיליפ --- ロス, フィリップ --- Acker, Kathy
ISBN: 0745315194 Year: 2000 Publisher: London Sterling, Va. Pluto Press
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Canon (Literature) --- Canon (Literatuur) --- Canons littéraires --- Literaire canon --- American literature --- -Authors and readers --- -Popular culture --- Celebrities --- -Canon (Literature) --- #SBIB:309H040 --- #SBIB:316.7C140 --- #SBIB:309H504 --- #SBIB:023.AANKOOP --- Classics, Literary --- Literary canon --- Literary classics --- Best books --- Criticism --- Literature --- Celebrity culture --- Celebs --- Cult of celebrity --- Famous people --- Famous persons --- Illustrious people --- Well-known people --- Persons --- Fan clubs --- Culture, Popular --- Mass culture --- Pop culture --- Popular arts --- Communication --- Intellectual life --- Mass society --- Recreation --- Readers and authors --- Authorship --- English literature --- Agrarians (Group of writers) --- History and criticism --- History --- -History --- -Populaire cultuur algemeen --- Cultuursociologie: cultuur en globale samenlevingen --- Code en boodschap: sociologische, antropologische benadering --- Acker, Kathy --- -DeLillo, Don --- Updike, John --- Roth, Philip --- -Roth, Philip Milton --- Rʺut, Bhilip --- Рот, Филип --- Rot, Filip --- רות, פיליפ --- フィリップロス --- Apdajk, Džon --- Apdaĭk, Dzhon --- אפדייק, ג"ון --- أبدايك، جون --- Lillo, Don De --- Делилло, Дон --- דלילו, דון --- דלילו, דן --- DeLillo, Donald Richard --- Birdwell, Cleo --- Appreciation --- -Appreciation --- -American literature --- Authors and readers --- Popular culture --- History and criticism. --- Canon (Literature). --- -Apdajk, Džon --- Roth, Philip Milton --- ロス, フィリップ --- Populaire cultuur algemeen --- Acker, Kathy, --- DeLillo, Don --- Fear, Clay, --- Black Tarantula, --- 20th century --- United States
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