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Consuming Silences: How We Read Authors Who Don't Publish
Myles Weber
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Description for Consuming Silences: How We Read Authors Who Don't Publish
Paperback. This book looks at the careers of Tillie Olsen, Henry Roth, J. D. Salinger, and Ralph Ellison and suggests that an unproductive author could command critical attention by offering volumes of silence. Consuming Silences injects energy into debates about the nature of literary production and the cultural place of authors who do not publish. Num Pages: 168 pages. BIC Classification: 2ABM; DSBH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 13. Weight in Grams: 277.
J. D. Salinger was an author in 1951 when he published The Catcher in the Rye. Is he one now? Was Henry Roth an author during the sixty years that separated Call It Sleep, his literary debut, from his second novel, Mercy of a Rude Stream? To show us how silence can be produced and consumed as a literary text, Myles Weber takes a provocative look at four revered authors who battled writer's block or simply ceased publishing. The careers of Tillie Olsen, Henry Roth, J. D. Salinger, and Ralph Ellison suggest that an unproductive twentieth-century author could command serious ... Read more
J. D. Salinger was an author in 1951 when he published The Catcher in the Rye. Is he one now? Was Henry Roth an author during the sixty years that separated Call It Sleep, his literary debut, from his second novel, Mercy of a Rude Stream? To show us how silence can be produced and consumed as a literary text, Myles Weber takes a provocative look at four revered authors who battled writer's block or simply ceased publishing. The careers of Tillie Olsen, Henry Roth, J. D. Salinger, and Ralph Ellison suggest that an unproductive twentieth-century author could command serious ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
University of Georgia Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
168
Place of Publication
Georgia, United States
ISBN
9780820326993
SKU
V9780820326993
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About Myles Weber
Myles Weber, an assistant professor of English at Ashland University, in Ashland, Ohio, is the author of Middlebrow Annoyances.
Reviews for Consuming Silences: How We Read Authors Who Don't Publish
For anyone who has ever wondered: What ever happened to... you know, that guy who wrote...? Miles Weber's Consuming Silences has an answer. This deliciously nasty study dissects why and how authors create 'careers of silence,' sustaining reputations for decades without publishing anything new. - Paula Rabinowitz, author of Black & White & Noir