Rolf Lundén

Erik Åsard

Aspects of the American Influence in Sweden

Networks of Americanization

Stephen Donovan

Danuta Zadworna-Fjellestad

In this wide ranging collection of essays, eleven literary scholars and creative writers examine authorship and authority in relation to the production and reception of cultural texts. Ranging in time from the Renaissance to the era of digital publishing, the essays invite us to reconsider the influential theories of Roland Barthes, Michel Foucault, and Pierre Bourdieu for our understanding of writers such as Philip Sydney, Thomas Hardy, Laura Riding, W.B. Yeats, Gertrude Stein, and J.M. Coetzee. Shedding new light on authority¿s complex role in the generation of cultural meaning, the essays will be of interest to students and teachers of literary history and critical theory alike.

Rethinking the Theory and Practice of Authorship

Authority Matters

Rolf Lunden

This book discusses the American short story composite, or short story cycle, a neglected form of writing consisting of autonomous stories interlocking into a whole. This study takes into consideration, to a greater degree than earlier criticism, the short story composite as an open work, emphasizing the tension between the independent stories and the unified work, between the discontinuity and fragmentation, on the one hand, and the totalizing strategies, on the other. The discussion of the genre is illustrated with references to numerous American short story composites.

Studies in the Short Story Composite

The United Stories of America

Rolf Lundén

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