Post Tagged with: "literary celebrity"
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Being Günter Grass
This chapter by Rebecca Braun looks at the British reception of Günter Grass specifically as the author of The Tin Drum, with an emphasis on the final 25 years of […]
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Writing, Life, and Death (Goodbye to Imre Kertész)
Writing Life and Death. Writing: Life and Death. Writing Life, and Death. Punctuation is never quite innocent. These three variations on a possible title together draw a portrait of […]
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World Authorship: Charting the Human Face of Literature
Interim report on an idea By Tobias Boes and Rebecca Braun World literature, as both a marketing phenomenon and an area of academic study, is booming. But amidst all […]
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Ecos from the Past: Homage to an Author
Umberto Eco died. I wish it were one of his characters stating this; we could then doubt it. One of the many things you learn with Eco’s fiction is namely […]
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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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