Editing Lives/Rewriting Public Identity: Celebrity and Authorship in Martin Amis’s Experience

Editing Lives/Rewriting Public Identity: Celebrity and Authorship in Martin Amis’s Experience

Addressing the negotiation of fame by the celebrity-author, and treating authorial persona as a collectively inscribed discursive identity-text, this article examines Martin Amis’s Experience (2000) for the textual strategies used to position Amis as implied editor and to emphasise the postmodern te...

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Main Author: Sally Mitchell
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: University of Edinburgh 2014-01-01
Series:Forum
Online Access:http://www.forumjournal.org/article/view/692
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spelling doaj-3dea2b3dd1c642c2a55db6a58533f7e92020-11-25T03:27:55ZengUniversity of EdinburghForum1749-97712014-01-01692Editing Lives/Rewriting Public Identity: Celebrity and Authorship in Martin Amis’s ExperienceSally Mitchell0The University of AmsterdamAddressing the negotiation of fame by the celebrity-author, and treating authorial persona as a collectively inscribed discursive identity-text, this article examines Martin Amis’s Experience (2000) for the textual strategies used to position Amis as implied editor and to emphasise the postmodern textuality of the life being narrated.http://www.forumjournal.org/article/view/692
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