Literary Celebrity
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Translated Stories, Translated Worlds: round-table discussion
Find out about the Man Booker International Prize and life as a translator The Storey Institute, Lancaster 22 March 2017, 19:00-22:00 What does it take to become a literary translator? […]
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How to read the real Elena Ferrante
Do novels need authors? A storm broke out this week around journalist Claudio Gatti’s decision to reveal the true identity of popular Italian novelist […]
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Manchester Event Examines Literary Celebrity as a Product of Caste Privilege in India
Manchester Discussion for Hatred in the Belly: Politics behind the appropriation of Dr. Ambedkar’s writings by the Ambedkar Age Collective When: 6 – 8 pm, 6th October 2016 Where: […]
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Blog: Jessica Goodman reflects on ‘The Point of View of Posterity’
‘Let posterity be your only point of view.’ La Mettrie, French materialist philosopher, 1750 In eighteenth-century France, posterity was a topic that occupied the thoughts of a great number of […]
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Rebecca Braun asks: ‘Where is Literary Celebrity? ‘
From What to Where This series of workshops began last September, where we took a multi-disciplinary look at what literary celebrity is. Arguing against prevailing trends in Celebrity Studies […]
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What is Literary Celebrity Now?
In 2014-15 we discussed the topic of ‘Literary Celebrity’ from a wide number of different practical and theoretical angles. Click here to watch Rebecca Braun present the hub’s first re-assessment of our terms in […]
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Blog: Critical Challenges to Literary Celebrity
As we gear up for the third event in our series on literary celebrity, we thought we should share the growing archive of our reflections on the topic. This […]
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Newsflash: Posterity in France, 19 March 2015
POSTERITY IN FRANCE, 1650-1800 Registration is now open for the conference ‘Posterity in France, 1650-1800 / La Postérité en France, 1650-1800’, to be held on March 19 in Cambridge. The conference is organised […]
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News: Authors and the World in London
On Friday 5 December, Authors & the World is having its first event outside Lancaster. Rebecca Braun, Emily Spiers and guest-member Sally-Ann Spencer will be working with a mixed cohort […]
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Blog: Mind over Matter? The Physical Presence of Literature, by Joanna Neilly
On 22 March 1832, Germany’s ‘poet prince’ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe died, aged 82. By 4 April, he was already being moved into the realm of myth, as a […]
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