AUTHORSHIP IN CONTEXT: FROM THE THEORETICAL TO THE MATERIAL; ED. BY KYRIAKI HADJIAFXENDI

This book maps the terrain of Anglo-American authorship as it shifts from a theoretical to a more material approach to its study in contexts recognized as key to its development: the nineteenth-century literary marketplace, twentieth-century experimentalism and postmodern culture. Gender and (post)colonial issues around authorial identity and literary work are further explored in relation to publishing policies, graphic media, and the Internet. Authorship In Context Examines The Transforming Relation Of Criticism To The History Of Authorship And The Book In Relation To Changing Theoretical Models Of Their Study As Well As The Conditions (critical, Historical, Socio-economic, Political And Technological) Behind Their Variability. By Utilizing A Materialist Approach, It Offers A Fresh Perspective To The Diversity Of The Authorial Function Within As Well As Across Fields And Disciplines Ranging From The Nineteenth-century Literary Market-place To Postmodern Culture. In Addition To Genre, Language And Style, This Book Focuses On Processes Of Textual Production And Reception, Varying From The Author's Act Of Composition And Publishing Policies To Editorial And Reading Practices. In Examining Their Impact On Canon Formation, Alongside Visual Technologies Like The Graphic Novel, Cinema And The World-wide Web, It Raises Issues Of Class, Gender, Race Or Socio-political Conflict That Determine The Fashioning Of Cultures, Texts And Authors. Featuring Contributions From Terry Eagleton, Michael Bell, Victor Sage And David Punter, Amongst Others, This Timely Volume Will Be Key Reading For Any Student Or Scholar Interested In Print Culture And The History Of The Book. Introduction: Authorship And Its Contexts / K. Hadjiafxendi And P. Mackay -- Part I: Nineteenth-century Literary Market-place -- The Author, The Editor And The Fissured Text: Scott, Maturin And Hogg / V. Sage -- 'george Eliot', The Literary Market-place And Sympathy / K. Hadjiafxendi -- Liberal Editing In The Fortnightly Review And The Nineteenth Century / H. Small -- Part Ii: Twentieth -century Mythologies Of Authorship -- F.r. Leavis: The Writer, Language, History / M. Bell -- Mind That Crowd: Flann O'brien's Authors / J. Brooker -- Authorship In The Writings And Films Of William S. Burroughs / P. Mackay -- Part Iii: Postmodern Culture -- Postmodernism, Criticism And The Graphic Novel / D. Punter -- Authorial Identity In The Era Of Electronic Technologies / T. Rapatzikou -- Towards A Politics Of The Small Things : Arundhati Roy And The Decentralization Of Authorship / M. Alexandru -- Part Iv: Authorship And Criticism -- The Decline Of The Critic / T. Eagleton. Edited By Kyriaki Hadjiafxendi And Polina Mackay. Includes Bibliographical References (p. 194-218) And Index. Front Matter....Pages i-xii Introduction: Authorship and its Contexts....Pages 1-12 Front Matter....Pages 13-13 The Author, the Editor, and the Fissured Text: Scott, Maturin and Hogg....Pages 15-32 ‘George Eliot’, the Literary Market-Place and Sympathy....Pages 33-55 Liberal Editing in the Fortnightly Review and the Nineteenth Century ....Pages 56-71 Front Matter....Pages 73-73 F. R. Leavis: The Writer, Language, History....Pages 75-90 Mind that Crowd: Flann O’Brien’s Authors....Pages 91-110 Authorship in the Writings and Films of William S. Burroughs....Pages 111-128 Front Matter....Pages 129-129 Postmodernism, Criticism and the graphic novel....Pages 131-144 Authorial Identity in the Era of Electronic Technologies....Pages 145-162 Towards a Politics of the Small Things: Arundhati Roy and the Decentralization of Authorship....Pages 163-181 Front Matter....Pages 183-183 The Decline of the Critic....Pages 185-193 Back Matter....Pages 194-231 Theories of authorship and material culture provide the framework for this study. It maps Anglo-American authorship as it shifts from a theoretical to a more material approach to its study in contexts recognized as key to its development: the nineteenth-century literary market-place, twentieth-century experimentalism and postmodern culture.