Door Prometheus geboeid: De autonomie en autoriteit van de moderne Nederlandse auteur

Literary authors have authority. This is certainly true of the early twenty-first century, as writers are asked in interviews, talk programs and on the Internet to give their views on social issues, but the same holds for the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. For hundreds of years writers have functioned as figures with an oddly paradoxical authority, for they base their claim on their outsider status and apparent lack of influence. Captivated by Prometheus makes use of a detailed posture model to investigate the self-representations of five Dutch authors active between 1820 and approximatel... Mehr ...