Description

• Title:
  The Most Famous Writer of the Low Countries: Herman Brusselmans Star Author and (Reluctant) Public Intellectual
• Creator:
  Honings, Rick
• Description:
  The Flemish writer Herman Brusselmans is the most famous author of the Low Countries. In this article, Herman Brusselmans is analysed as a star author. First and foremost, two striking aspects of Brusselmans’s stardom are analysed: his public visibility and the cult of the private. Attention is then focused on Brusselmans’s experience of celebrity, which he – like many other star authors – thematises in his books. Doing so, he consciously places himself in the context of popular culture. On the other hand, as a result of his celebrity status he has been expected – particularly in the last few years – to assume the role of public intellectual willy-nilly, and this in turn has had consequences for his work.
• Object availability:
  free access
• Rights:
  Prawa autorskie (c) 2017 Rick Honings;
  https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/deed.en
• Date:
  2017.11.27
• Type:
  info:eu-repo/semantics/article;
  info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion;
  Peer-reviewed articles
• Language:
  English
• Source:
  Werkwinkel; Vol. 12 No. 2 (2017); 41-64;
  Werkwinkel; Tom 12 Nr 2 (2017); 41-64;
  2719-2938;
  1896-3307
• Format:
  application/pdf
• Publisher:
  Adam Mickiewicz University Poznan
• Relation: http://pressto.amu.edu.pl/index.php/werk/article/view/werk-2017-0012/28431
• Subject:
  Herman Brusselmans;
  Flanders;
  star author;
  literary celebrity culture;
  public intellectual
• Identifier: http://pressto.amu.edu.pl/index.php/werk/article/view/werk-2017-0012
• Data provider:
  Platforma Otwartych Czasopism Naukowych UAM
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  seek permission
• Type:
  other