Performing Authorship: Strategies of "Becoming an Author" in the Works of Paul Auster, Candice Breitz, Sophie Calle, and Jonathan Safran Foer - Couverture souple

Longolius, Sonja

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 3837634604 ISBN 13 : 9783837634600

Editeur : Transcript Verlag, 2016

Synopsis

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«.

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À propos de l?auteur

Sonja Longolius is a literary scholar, art historian, and curator based in Berlin. Her interests include, among others, art and literary theory and contemporary art and literature.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Transcript Verlag
• Date d'édition: 2016
• ISBN 10: 3837634604
• ISBN 13: 9783837634600
• Reliure: Broché
• Langue: anglais
• Numéro d'édition: 1
• Nombre de pages: 290
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible