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This Handbook surveys the state of the art in literary authorship studies. Its 27 original contributions by eminent scholars offer a multi-layered account of authorship as a defining element of literature and culture. Covering a vast chronological range, Part I considers the history of authorship from cuneiform writing to contemporary digital publishing; it discusses authorship in ancient Egypt, Greece, Rome, early Jewish cultures, medieval, Renaissance, modern, postmodern and Chinese literature. The second part focuses on the place of authorship in literary theory, and on challenges to theorizing literary authorship, such as gender and sexuality, postcolonial and indigenous contexts for writing. Finally, Part III investigates practical perspectives on the topic, with a focus on attribution, anonymity and pseudonymity, plagiarism and forgery, copyright and literary property, censorship, publishing and marketing and institutional contexts.

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This book shows how African American literature emerged as a world-recognized literature: less as the product of a seamless tradition of writers signifying upon their ancestors and more the product of three generations of ambitious, competitive individuals aiming to be the first great African American writer. It charts a canon of fictional landmarks, beginning with The House Behind the Cedars and culminating in the National Book Award-Winner Invisible Man, and tells the compelling stories of the careers of key African writers, including Charles Chesnutt, James Weldon Johnson, Jean Toomer, Zora Neale Hurston, Richard Wright, and Ralph Ellison. These writers worked within the white-dominated, commercial, Eurocentric literary field to put African American literature on the world literary map, while struggling to transcend the cultural expectations attached to their position as 'Negro authors'. Literary Ambition and the African American Novel tells as much about the novels that these writers could not publish as it does about their major achievements.

American fiction --- African Americans --- African Americans in literature. --- Authorship --- Authoring (Authorship) --- Writing (Authorship) --- Literature --- Afro-Americans in literature --- Negroes in literature --- African American intellectuals --- African American authors --- History and criticism. --- Intellectual life. --- Social aspects

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Revisions form a natural part of the writing process, but is the concept of revision actually an intrinsic part of the formation of the novel genre? Through the recovery and analysis of material from novel manuscripts and post-publication revisions, Hilary Havens identifies a form of 'networked authorship'. By tracing authors' revisions to their novels, the influence of familial and literary circles, reviewers, and authors' own previous writings can be discerned. Havens focuses on the work of Samuel Richardson, Frances Burney, Jane Austen, and Maria Edgeworth to challenge the individualistic view of authorship that arose during the Romantic period, and argues that networked authorship shaped the composition of eighteenth-century novels. Exploring these themes of collaboration and social networks, as well as engaging with the burgeoning trend towards textual recovery, this work is an important contribution in the study of eighteenth-century novels and their manuscript counterparts.

Fiction --- Comparative literature --- English literature --- anno 1700-1799 --- English fiction --- Editing --- Authorship --- Criticism, Textual --- History --- Authoring (Authorship) --- Writing (Authorship) --- Literature --- 82.081 --- 820-3 "17" --- 82.081 Creatief schrijven --- Creatief schrijven --- 820-3 "17" Engelse literatuur: proza--18e eeuw. Periode 1700-1799 --- Engelse literatuur: proza--18e eeuw. Periode 1700-1799 --- Authorship. --- Criticism, Textual.

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This Element looks at contemporary authorship via three key authorial roles: indie publisher, hybrid author, and fanfiction writer. The twenty-first century's digital and networked media allows writers to disintermediate the established structures of royalty publishing, and to distribute their work directly to - and often in collaboration with - their readers. This demotic author, one who is 'of the people', often works in genres considered 'popular' or 'derivative'. The demotic author eschews the top-down communication flow of author > text > reader, in favor of publishing platforms that generate attention capital, such as blogs, fanfiction communities, and social media.

Authorship. --- Written communication --- Publishing. --- Written discourse --- Written language --- Communication --- Discourse analysis --- Language and languages --- Visual communication --- Authoring (Authorship) --- Writing (Authorship) --- Literature --- Technological innovations. --- Self-publishing. --- Fan fiction --- Art d'écrire. --- Édition à compte d'auteur. --- Communication écrite --- authorship. --- Fiction genres. --- Elektronisches Publizieren. --- Selbstverlag. --- Fan-Fiction. --- Innovations.

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Writing comprises a significant proportion of academic staff members’ roles. While academics have been acculturated to the notion of ‘publish or perish,’ they often struggle to find the time to accomplish writing papers and tend to work alone. The result can be a sense of significant stress and isolation around the writing process. Writing partnerships, groups, and retreats help mitigate these challenges and provide significant positive writing experiences for their members. Critical Collaborative Communities describes diverse examples of partnerships from writing regularly with one or two colleagues to larger groups that meet for a single day, regular writing meetings, or a retreat over several days. While these approaches bring mutual support for members, each is not without its respective challenges. Each chapter outlines an approach to writing partnerships and interrogates its strengths and limitations as well as proposes recommendations for others hoping to implement the practice. Authors in this volume describe how they have built significant trusting relationships that have helped avoid isolation and have led to their self-authorship as academic writers.

Academic writing. --- Authorship --- Writers' retreats. --- Writers' workshops. --- Writing centers. --- Laboratories, Writing --- Writing laboratories --- Rhetoric --- Workshops, Writers' --- Writing workshops --- Colonies, Writers' --- Colonies, Writing --- Residences, Writers' --- Retreats, Writers' --- Sanctuaries, Writers' --- Writers' colonies --- Writers' residences --- Writers' sanctuaries --- Writing colonies --- Writing retreats --- Hospitality industry --- Authoring (Authorship) --- Writing (Authorship) --- Literature --- Collaboration in literature --- Collaborative authorship --- Joint authors --- Literary collaboration --- Artistic collaboration --- Copyright --- Learned writing --- Scholarly writing --- Collaboration. --- Social aspects. --- Study and teaching --- Collective writing