The preface : American authorship in the twentieth century / Ross K. Tangedal.
Tangedal, Ross K., 1986- author.
2021
PS221
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Title The preface : American authorship in the twentieth century / Ross K. Tangedal.
Author Tangedal, Ross K., 1986- author.
ISBN 9783030851514 (electronic bk.)
3030851516 (electronic bk.)
9783030851507
3030851508
DOI https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-85151-4
Published Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, 2021.
Language English
Description 1 online resource (1 volume) : illustrations (black and white)
Other Standard Identifiers 10.1007/978-3-030-85151-4 doi
Call Number PS221
Dewey Decimal Classification 810.9/005
Summary Building on insights from the fields of textual criticism, bibliography, narratology, authorship studies, and book history, The Preface: American Authorship in the Twentieth Century examines the role that prefaces played in the development of professional authorship in America. Many of the prefaces written by American writers in the twentieth century catalogue the shifting landscape of a more self-consciously professionalized trade, one fraught with tension and compromise, and influenced by evolving reading publics. With analyses of Willa Cather, Ring Lardner, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, Robert Penn Warren, and Toni Morrison, Ross K. Tangedal argues that writers used prefaces as a means of expanding and complicating authority over their work and, ultimately, as a way to write about their careers. Tangedals approach offers a new way of examining American writers in the evolving literary marketplace of the twentieth century.
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Series New directions in book history.
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Introduction An Influence on the Public: Writers, Authors, Prefaces
Chapter One People Have to Learn: Willa Cathers Introductions to My Antonia
Chapter Two Stepping In or Turning Back: Ring Lardner and Authorial Refusal
Chapter Three Inhibiting Signposts: F. Scott Fitzgerald and Authorial Anxiety
Chapter Four The Will to Control: Ernest Hemingway and the Action of Writing
Chapter Five The Awful Responsibility: Robert Penn Warren, Ralph Ellison, and Time
Chapter Six A Safe Distance: Toni Morrison and the Search for Legacy
Conclusion Every Given Moment Has Its Value: To Get a Proper Reading.

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