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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Tontiplaphol, Betsy Winakur[Herausgeber]
• Klimchynskaya, Anastasia[Herausgeber]

Titel

The literary Taylor Swift : songwriting and intertextuality

Ort / Verlag

New York : Bloomsbury Academic

Erscheinungsjahr

2024

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Includes bibliographical references and index
• Blank spaces, fresh pages : Taylor Swift and/as literature / Betsy Tontiplaphol and Anastasia Klimchynskaya -- I. All of the books beside your bed : engaging the literary-historical canon. "I haven't met the new me yet" : folklore/evermore and Taylor Swift's self-fashioned renaissance / Devori Kimbro ; Big reputation : reading Taylor Swift and/with eighteenth-century women writers / Bridget Donnelly ; "Just to break me like a promise" : Taylor Swift as ridiculous romantic heroine / Rita J. Dashwood ; "What are my 'Wordsworth'?" : Taylor Swift's new romanticism / Brittany Reid and Taylor McKee ; Baby, we're the late romantics : Taylor Swift and the English Biedermeier / Betsy Tontiplaphol ; Modernist intertextualities in folklore and evermore / Jennifer Smith -- II. Every version of yourself tonight : examining gender, sexuality, and race. The death of the pop auteur : Taylor Swift's feminist politics of collaboration and revision / Stephen Grandchamp ; "No one likes a mad woman" : the crazy ex-girlfriend trope and/as feminist resistance in Taylor Swift's music and mythology / Ryanne Kap ; Female millennial rage : the weaponization of cottagecore / Katherine Murray ; "She would've made such a lovely bride" : queer anxieties on folklore and evermore / Erin Geary ; What it means to shake it off : Taylor Swift, race, and citizenship / Shaun Cullen -- III. Time, curious time : (re-)writing memory. "Time, curious time" : memory, agency, and elastic temporality in Taylor Swift / Miranda Steege ; "Say you'll remember me ... all too well" : Taylor Swift's memory work / Maggie Laurel Boyd ; "Scrap[s] of you" : textures of loss in Swift's folklore and evermore / Claire Hurley ; "The corner I haunt" : trauma, time, and space in Taylor Swift's post-hiatus oeuvre / Carolin Isabel Steiner -- IV. This ain't a fairy tale : considering craft, genre, and mediation. Show, don't tell? How Taylor Swift does both and complicates a writing cliché / Samantha Bañal ; "I never knew I could feel that much" : Taylor Swift's recuperative aesthetics of excess / Anastasia Klimchynskaya ; "Making the stone stony" : the paradox of defamiliarization and hyperfamiliarity in Taylor Swift's songwriting / Margrét Ann Thors ; "This is me trying" : autofiction and Taylor Swift / Maria Juko ; (Taylor's version) : authenticity and aura in Taylor Swift's re-recordings / Meghan Kuehnle.
• "Taylor Swift, arguably the most prolific and acclaimed singer-songwriter of the 21st century, has shaped her listeners' collective consciousness and challenged her industry's often limiting attitudes toward genre, revision, and collaboration. The Literary Taylor Swift both explores Swift's engagements, intertextual and otherwise, with literature and treats her songs as literature-as stories, poems, and other textual forms to which literary-critical theories and methodologies can be productively applied. These essays present four themes: Swift and the literary-historical canon; Swift and the language of gender and sexuality; Swift and the relationship between writing and memory; and Swift and the nature of literary craft"--