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This open access collection of essays examines the literary advice industry since its emergence in Anglo-American literary culture in the mid-nineteenth century within the context of the professionalization of the literary field and the continued debate on creative writing as art and craft. Often dismissed as commercial and stereotypical by authors and specialists alike, literary advice has nonetheless remained a flourishing business, embodying the unquestioned values of a literary system, but also functioning as a sign of a literary system in transition. Exploring the rise of new online amateur writing cultures in the twenty-first century, this collection of essays considers how literary advice proliferates globally, leading to new forms and genres.

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Author:   Anneleen Masschelein ,  Dirk de Geest
Publisher:   Springer Nature Switzerland AG
Imprint:   Springer Nature Switzerland AG
Edition:   1st ed. 2021
Weight:   0.693kg
ISBN:  

9783030536138

ISBN 10:   3030536130
Pages:   412
Publication Date:   16 December 2020
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

1.       Introduction: Literary Advice from Quill to Keyboard Anneleen Masschelein               PART I: FROM FICTIONEERING TO WATTPAD   2.       Learning Fiction by Subscription: The Art and Business of Literary Advice 1884-1895 John Caughey   3.       “You Will Be Surprised that Fiction Has Become an Art”: The Language of Craft and the Legacy of Henry James Mary Stewart Atwell   4.       “Your Successful Man of Letters is Your Successful Tradesman”: Fiction and the Marketplace in the British Author’s Guides of the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries Paul Vlitos   5.       ‘Do You Use a Pencil or a Pen?’: Author Interviews as Literary Advice Rebecca Roach   6.       “Stand out from the Crowd!”: Literary Advice in Online Writing Communities Bronwen Thomas     PART II: CASE STUDIES OF LITERARY ADVICE     7.       Tools for Shaping Stories? Visual Plot Models in a Sample of Anglo-American Advice Handbooks Liorah Hoek   8.       The “Ready-Made-Writer” in a Selection of Contemporary Francophone Literary Advice Manuals Françoise Grauby   9.       Taking Self-help Books Seriously: The Informal Aesthetic Education of Writers Alexandria Peary   10.   A Pulse Before Shelf Life: Literary Advice on Notebook-writing as Event Arne Vanraes   11.   ‘Writing by Prescription’: Creative Writing as Therapy and Personal Development Leni Van Goidsenhoven and Anneleen Masschelein     PART III. ADOPTING AND RESISTING LITERARY ADVICE CULTURE   12.   Reproduction as Literary Production: Self-expression and the Index in Kenneth Goldsmith’s Uncreative Writing Ioannis Tsitsovits   13.   Creative Writing Crosses the Atlantic: An Attempt at Creating a Minor French Literature Gert-Jan Meyntjens   14.   “Mostrar, no decir”: The Influence of and Resistance Against Workshop Poetics in the Hispanic Literary Field Andrés Franco Harnache   15.   Work and Writing Life: Shifts in the Relationship between ‘Work’ and ‘The Work’ in Twenty-First Century Literary Advice Memoirs Elizabeth Kovach   16.   “If You Can Read, You Can Write, Or Can You, Really? Jim Collins  

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Anneleen Masschelein is Associate Professor in Literary and Cultural Studies at the University of Leuven, Belgium. Her book, The Unconcept: The Freudian Uncanny in Late-Twentieth Century Theory (2011) is an intellectual history of the conceptualization of the uncanny. Dirk de Geest is Professor in Dutch Literature and Literary Theory at the University of Leuven, Belgium. He has published widely in the domain of modern Dutch literature and of literary theory.

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