03507nam 2200637 a 450 991078020120332120230422042436.01-84964-525-60-585-42587-6(CKB)111056486518372(StDuBDS)AH22933812(SSID)ssj0000250608(PQKBManifestationID)11176344(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000250608(PQKBWorkID)10245142(PQKB)10567203(MiAaPQ)EBC3386399(Au-PeEL)EBL3386399(CaPaEBR)ebr10479963(CaONFJC)MIL987601(OCoLC)50811088(EXLCZ)9911105648651837219991025d2000 uy 0engur|||||||||||txtccrStar authors[electronic resource] literary celebrity in America /Joe MoranLondon ;Sterling, Va. Pluto Press20001 online resource (192 p.)Based on the author's thesis (doctoral)--University of Sussex.0-7453-1519-4 0-7453-1524-0 Includes bibliographical references and index.pt. 1. Cultural contexts -- pt. 2. Star authors.In America, authors are as likely to be seen on television talk shows or magazine covers as in the more traditional settings of literary festivals or book signings. Is this literary celebrity just another result of 'dumbing down'? Yet another example of the mass media turning everything into entertainment? Or is it a much more unstable, complex phenomenon? And what does the American experience tell us about the future of British literary celebrity?In Star Authors, Joe Moran shows how publishers, the media and authors themselves create and disseminate literary celebrity. He looks at such famous contemporary authors as Toni Morrison, J.D. Salinger, Thomas Pynchon, Don DeLillo, John Updike, Philip Roth, Kathy Acker, Nicholson Baker, Paul Auster and Jay McInerney. Through an examination of their own work, biographical information, media representations and promotional material, Moran illustrates the nature of modern literary celebrity. He argues that authors actively negotiate their own celebrity rather than simply having it imposed upon them - from reclusive authors such as Salinger and Pynchon, famed for their very lack of public engagement, to media-friendly authors such as Updike and McInerney. Star Authors analyses literary celebrity in the context of the historical links between literature, advertising and publicity in America; the economics of literary production; and the cultural capital involved in the marketing and consumption of books and authors.American literature20th centuryHistory and criticismAuthors and readersUnited StatesHistory20th centuryPopular cultureUnited StatesHistory20th centuryCelebritiesUnited StatesCanon (Literature)American literatureHistory and criticism.Authors and readersHistoryPopular cultureHistoryCelebritiesCanon (Literature)810.9/0054Moran Joe1970-876250MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910780201203321Star authors3802440UNINA