Research Catalog

Title

Performing authorship : strategies of "becoming an author" in the works of Paul Auster, Candice Breitz, Sophie Calle, and Jonathan Safran Foer / Sonja Longolius.

Author

Longolius, Sonja,

Publication

• Bielefeld : Transcript, [2016]
• ©2016

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Description

284 pages : 33 illustrations (some color); 23 cm.

Summary

"Authors not only create artworks. In the process of creating, they simultaneously bring to life their author personae. Approaching this phenomenon from an interdisciplinary point of view, Sonja Longolius develops a concept of 'performative authorship' by examining different strategies of becoming an author. In regard to the notion of her concept, this work offers a critical and comparative analysis of the works of Paul Auster, Candice Breitz, Sophie Calle, and Jonathan Safran Foer. Specifically, Auster/Calle and Breitz/Foer form a generational pair of opposites, enabling a discussion of postmodern and post-postmodern artistic strategies of 'performative authorship'."--Publisher description.

Series Statement

Culture & theory

Alternative Title

Strategies of "becoming an author" in the works of Paul Auster, Candice Breitz, Sophie Calle, and Jonathan Safran Foer

Subject

• Auster, Paul, 1947- > Criticism and interpretation
• Authorship
• Authorship in literature
• Breitz, Candice > Criticism and interpretation
• Calle, Sophie > Criticism and interpretation
• Foer, Jonathan Safran, 1977- > Criticism and interpretation

Genre/Form

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Note

• Originally presented as the author's thesis (doctoral)--Universität Berlin.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 273-284).

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Machine generated contents note: Becoming: An Introduction -- Who Is This Mysterious Other? -- Becoming an Author -- Authorial Representation as a Performative Act -- Performative Authorship -- Positioning -- Auto/Biography -- He: The Invention of Solitude -- I: Hand to Mouth -- You: Winter Journal -- Self/Portrait -- "Factum" -- True Stories I -- Eating Animals -- Staging -- Stage Names -- Staging Oneself -- Everything Is Illuminated -- "City of Glass" -- "The Detective" -- Individual Mythologies -- True Stories II -- The Red Notebook: True Stories -- Playing -- Playing Authorial Games -- A Convergence of Birds -- "King" and "Queen" -- Authors in Collaboration -- The Story of My Typewriter -- Double Game -- Tree of Codes.

ISBN

• 9783837634600
• 9783839434604 (canceled/invalid)

OCLC

947817100

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library