Performing Authorship
Subtitle: Strategies of Becoming an Author in the Works of Paul Auster, Candice Breitz, Sophie Calle, and Jonathan Safran Foer
Publisher: Transcript Verlag
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 340
ISBN-13: 9783837634600
Description: "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'."--Publisher description.