1st Edition
Life Writing and Celebrity Exploring Intersections
Introduction – Life Writing and Celebrity: Exploring Intersections
Sandra Mayer and Julia Novak
1. An Austrian Auden: A Media Construction Story
Timo Frühwirth
2. Sergei Eisenstein as Seen by Peter Greenaway: A Dialectic Representation of an (Anti-)Great Film Director
Fátima Chinita
3. Fictionalisation in Biography: Creating the Dickens Myth
Rosemary Kay
4. Visual Art as Celebrity Memoir: The Paradox of Peg Woffington’s Sick-bed Portrait
Annette Rubery
5. Writing Celebrity as Disability: Las Meninas, Performing Dwarfs, and Michael Jackson Fan Day
Eva Sage Gordon
6. ‘Boswellized From Mere Persons to Personages’: Arthur Stringer, Mary Pickford, and the Trouble with Celebrity Profile(r)s
Katja Lee
7. ‘Watergate-ing’ Norman Mailer’s Marilyn: Life Writing in Cultural Context
Oline Eaton
8. Pacts, Paratext, and Polyphony: Writing the Authorised Biography of Robert Wyatt
Marcus O’Dair
Biography
Sandra Mayer is a Research Fellow in English Literature at the University of Vienna, Austria, and the Oxford Centre for Life-Writing, UK. She has published widely on authorship and literary celebrity, (co)editing special issues on the theme for Celebrity Studies, Forum for Modern Language Studies, and Persona Studies.
Julia Novak is a Research Fellow at the Department of English at the University of Vienna, Austria. She has published extensively on poetry performance and biographical fiction, including the collection Experiments in Life Writing (2017). She is an editor of the European Journal of Life Writing.
