Writing an Icon
Автор: Anita Jarczok
Год издания: 0000
Anais Nin, the diarist, novelist, and provocateur, occupied a singular space in twentieth-century culture, not only as a literary figure and voice of female sexual liberation but as a celebrity and symbol of shifting social mores in postwar America. Before Madonna and her many imitators, there was Nin; yet, until now, there has been no major study of Nin as a celebrity figure. In Writing an Icon, Anita Jarczok reveals how Nin carefully crafted her literary and public personae, which she rewrote and restyled to suit her needs and desires. When the first volume of her diary was published in 1966, Nin became a celebrity, notorious beyond the artistic and literary circles in which she previously had operated. Jarczok examines the ways in which the American media appropriated and deconstructed Nin and analyzes the influence of Nin’s guiding hand in their construction of her public persona. The key to understanding Nin’s celebrity in its shifting forms, Jarczok contends, is the Diary itself, the principal vehicle through which her image has been mediated. Combining the perspectives of narrative and cultural studies, Jarczok traces the trajectory of Nin’s celebrity, the reception of her writings. The result is an innovative investigation of the dynamic relationships of Nin’s writing, identity, public image, and consumer culture.
Memoirs of the life and writings of Benjamin Franklin. Vol. 1
Автор: Бенджамин Франклин
Год издания:
Полный вариант заголовка: «Memoirs of the life and writings of Benjamin Franklin : Vol. 1 : now first published from the original MSS. compising the private correspondence and public negotiations of Dr. Franklin, and a selection from his political, philosophical and miscellaneous works / written by himself to a late period, and continued to the time of his death, by his grandson, William Temple Franklin».
Memoirs of the life and writings of Benjamin Franklin. Vol. 3
Автор: Бенджамин Франклин
Год издания:
Полный вариант заголовка: «Memoirs of the life and writings of Benjamin Franklin : Vol. 3 : now first published from the original MSS. compising the private correspondence and public negotiations of Dr. Franklin, and a selection from his political, philosophical and miscellaneous works / written by himself to a late period, and continued to the time of his death, by his grandson, William Temple Franklin».
Miscellaneous writings
Автор: R. C. Dallas
Год издания:
Полный вариант заголовка: «Miscellaneous writings : consisting of poems, Lukretia, a tragedy, and moral essays : with a vocabulary of the passions, in which their sources are pointed out, their regular currents traced, and their deviations delineated / by R.C. Dallas».
An essay on the writings and genius of Shakespeare, compared with the Greek and French dramatic poets
Автор: Elizabeth Robinson Montagu
Год издания:
Полный вариант заголовка: «An essay on the writings and genius of Shakespeare, compared with the Greek and French dramatic poets : to which are now first added, Three dialogues of the dead / by Mrs. Montagu ; with some remarks upon the misrepresentations of Mons. de Voltaire».