Overview

Taylor Swift, arguably the most prolific and acclaimed singer-songwriter of the 21st century, has shaped her listeners’ collective consciousness and challenged her industry’s often limiting attitudes toward genre, revision, and collaboration. Although Swift is a perennial subject in the media, cast in both a positive and a negative light, few professional scholars have considered her ever-growing body of work. The Literary Taylor Swift examines Swift’s significance and timeliness through literary analysis and theory. Taylor Swift has been celebrated for her ability to craft immersive narratives and to articulate, with lyrical acuity, a broad range of emotional experiences, and her lyrics underscore her profound relationship with text. The Literary Taylor Swift explores Swift’s engagements, intertextual and otherwise, with literature and treats her songs as literature—as, that is, stories, poems, and other textual forms to which literary-critical theories and methodologies can and should be productively applied. This collection offers carefully curated arguments constellated around four key relationships: Swift and the literary-historical canon; Swift and the language of gender and sexuality; Swift and the relationship between writing and memory; and Swift and the nature of literary craft.

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Author:   Betsy Winakur Tontiplaphol ,  Dr. Anastasia Klimchynskaya
Publisher:   Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Imprint:   Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN:  

9798765104514

Pages:   288
Publication Date:   14 November 2024
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

"Introduction: Blank Spaces, Fresh Pages: Taylor Swift and/as Literature Betsy Tontiplaphol, Trinity University, USA, and Anastasia Klimchynskaya, Loyola University Chicago, USA Part 1: All of the Books Beside Your Bed: Engaging the Literary-Historical Canon 1. “I haven’t met the new me yet”: folklore/evermore and Taylor Swift’s Self-Fashioned Renaissance Devori Kimbro, University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, USA 2. Big Reputation: Reading Taylor Swift and/with 18th-Century Women Writers Bridget Donnelly, Middle Tennessee State University, USA 3. “Just to break me like a promise”: Taylor Swift as Romantic Heroine Rita J. Dashwood, Edge Hill University, UK 4. “What are my 'Wordsworth'?”: Taylor Swift’s New Romanticism Brittany Reid, Thompson Rivers University, Canada, and Taylor McKee, Brock University, Canada 5. Baby, We're the Late Romantics: Taylor Swift and the English Biedermeier Betsy Winakur Tontiplaphol, Trinity University, USA 6. Modernist Intertextualities in folklore and evermore Jennifer Smith, North Central College, Illinois, USA Part 2: Every Version of Yourself Tonight: Examining Gender, Sexuality, and Race 7. The Death of the Pop Auteur: Taylor Swift’s Feminist Politics of Collaboration and Revision Stephen Grandchamp, University of Maine at Farmington, USA 8. “No one likes a mad woman”: The Crazy Ex-Girlfriend Trope and/as Feminist Resistance in Taylor Swift’s Music and Mythology Ryanne Kap, University of Calgary, Canada 9. Female Millennial Rage: The Weaponization of Cottagecore Katherine Murray, Independent Scholar 10. “She would’ve made such a lovely bride”: Queer Anxieties on folklore and evermore Erin Geary, Independent Scholar 11. What It Means to Shake It Off: Taylor Swift, Race, and Citizenship Shaun Cullen, Independent Scholar Part 3: Time, Curious Time: (Re-)Writing Memory 12. “Time, curious time”: Memory, Agency, and Elastic Temporality in Taylor Swift Miranda Steege, University of California, Riverside, USA 13. “Say you’ll remember me … all too well”: Taylor Swift’s Mobilizing and Monopolizing Memory Work Maggie Laurel Boyd, Boston University, USA 14. “Scrap[s] of you”: Textures of Loss in Swift’s folklore and evermore Claire Hurley, University of Kent, UK 15. ""The corner I haunt"": Trauma, Time, and Space in Taylor Swift's Post-Hiatus Oeuvre Carolin Isabel Steiner, Hochschule Mittweida, Germany Part 4: This Ain’t a Fairy Tale: Considering Craft, Genre, and Mediation 16. Show, Don’t Tell? How Taylor Swift Does Both and Complicates a Writing Cliché Samantha Bañal, Independent Scholar 17. ""I never knew I could feel that much"": Taylor Swift's Recuperative Aesthetics of Excess Anastasia Klimchynskaya, Loyola University Chicago, USA 18. The Paradox of Defamiliarization and Hyperfamiliarity in Taylor Swift’s Songwriting Margrét Ann Thors, University of Iceland 19. “This is me trying”: Autofiction and Taylor Swift Maria Juko, University of Hamburg, Germany 20. (Taylor’s Version): Authenticity and Aura in Taylor Swift’s Re-Recordings Meghan Kuehnle, The Ohio State University, USA Contributors Index"

Reviews

Taylor Swift’s artistic and commercial success has not just impacted the language of music, but language itself. This far-reaching volume approaches the superstar from every angle to assess the way Swift reflects and shapes literary culture—and why it matters not just to fans, but to everyone with a voice and a pen. * Nate Sloan, Assistant Professor of Musicology, University of Southern California, USA, and co-host of Switched on Pop *

Taylor Swift’s artistic and commercial success has not just impacted the language of music, but language itself. This far-reaching volume approaches the superstar from every angle to assess the way Swift reflects and shapes literary culture—and why it matters not just to fans, but to everyone with a voice and a pen. * Nate Sloan, Assistant Professor of Musicology, University of Southern California, USA, and co-host of Switched on Pop * This volume addresses a significant Blank Space in literary scholarship, and it does so with Style. It is a detailed and comprehensive testament to the cultural impact, lyrical versatility, and complex intertextuality of a global pop phenomenon. * Elly McCausland, Professor of English Literature, Ghent University, Belgium * The Literary Taylor Swift is a proleptic entry into the library of The Tortured Poets Department, anticipating what Swift made explicit on her latest record. Written prior to its release, the eras-spanning essays go way beyond decoding Swift's carefully placed Easter eggs. The editors and contributors prove that the singer-songwriter's work is worthy of continued academic scrutiny with approaches that range from explorations of intertexts to applications of theories of gender and race. Essential reading for scholars, teachers, and students of the self-proclaimed chairman's body of musical and poetic work. * Katie Kapurch, Professor of English, Texas State University, USA and author of Victorian Melodrama in the 21st Century (2016) *

Author Information

Betsy Winakur Tontiplaphol is Professor of English at Trinity University in San Antonio, Texas, USA, where she specializes in 19th-century British literature, particularly Romantic poetry. In addition to numerous essays, she is the author of Poetics of Luxury in the Nineteenth Century: Keats, Tennyson, and Hopkins (2011) and The Pointe of the Pen: Nineteenth-Century Poetry and the Balletic Imagination (2021). Anastasia Klimchynskaya is Visiting Assistant Professor of English at Illinois Wesleyan University in Bloomington, Illinois, USA. She specializes in 19th-century literature in its intersections with science, technology, and the cultural imagination, and has published widely on ""popular"" genres such as detective, Gothic, and science fiction.

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