Performing Authorship: Strategies of "Becoming an Author" in the Works of Paul Auster, Candice Breitz, Sophie Calle, and Jonathan Safran Foer (Culture & Theory) (Edition Kulturwissenschaft, #98)

by Sonja Longolius

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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".
  • ISBN10 3837634604
  • ISBN13 9783837634600
  • Publish Date 15 June 2016 (first published 6 June 2016)
  • Publish Status Active
  • Publish Country DE
  • Imprint Transcript Verlag