Agency and Author by Rachel J Halverson
The image of the solitary author devoting days and nights to writing endless bestselling novels remains an insidious and largely unchallenged myth within German culture. In this exacting examination of the German publishing industry, Agency and Author addresses the financial reality sometimes eclipsed by this idea. Focusing on lesser-known German-language writers and their interactions with the Literaturbetrieb (literary scene), Agency and Author explores the ways authors assert creative agency in an increasingly 'eventized' literary marketplace. Ranging from the impacts of literary awards to media hate campaigns, this volume spotlights how profoundly the German literary landscape and our understanding of authorship is transforming.-
The Emperor's Old Clothes
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Walls, Borders, Boundaries
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Beyond Posthumanism
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Names and Naming in Early Modern Germany
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After The History of Sexuality
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Beyond Alterity
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Archeologies of Confession
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Money in the German-speaking Lands
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Ruptures in the Everyday
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Views of Violence
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What Remains
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Dreams of Germany
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The Total Work of Art
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Conversion and the Politics of Religion in Early Modern Germany
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Kinship, Community, and Self
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The Holy Roman Empire, Reconsidered
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The Origins of German Self-Cultivation
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Migrations in the German Lands, 1500-2000
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Reluctant Skeptic
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Managing Pandemics in Early Modern Germany
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Football Nation
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Weimar Publics/Weimar Subjects
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Becoming East German
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The Devil's Riches
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Former Neighbors, Future Allies?
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Minority Discourses in Germany since 1990
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Feelings Materialized
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Religious Plurality at Princely Courts
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Invested Narratives
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Mixed Matches
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Healing and Harm
Rachel J. Halverson is Professor of German and Director of the School of Global Studies at the University of Idaho. A specialist in post-war and post-unification German literature and culture, she has published research on the Historikerstreit, as well as the works of Siegfried Lenz, Jurek Becker, Günter de Bruyn, and Martina Hefter, among others. In addition to journal articles and book chapters, she has co-edited three anthologies: Textual Responses to German Unification (2001) and Berlin: The Symphony Continues (2004), with Carol Anne Costabile-Heming and Kristie Foell; and Taking Stock of German Studies in the United States: The New Millennium (2015), with Costabile-Heming.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781805398011 |
| ISBN 10 | 1805398016 |
| Title | Agency and Author |
| Author | Rachel J Halverson |
| Series | Spektrum: Publications Of The German Studies Association |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Berghahn Books |
| Year published | 2025-01-01 |
| Number of pages | 250 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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