Privacy versus publicity swift success versus laborious apprenticeship national versus international association, or ownership of the celebrity - no single version of celebrity applies to all. Depending on the public interpretation of a particular writer's life and work, different tensions arise in negotiating literary celebrity. She casts doubt on the notion of a specifically Canadian response to fame. Montgomery, York demonstrates that individual authors respond differently to fame in ways that can be contradictory and complex. Using as examples three contemporary literary celebrities, Margaret Atwood, Michael Ondaatje, and Carol Shields, and four earlier popular writers, Pauline Johnson, Stephen Leacock, Mazo de la Roche, and L.M. Building on the argument that celebrity is a phenomenon firmly embraced by mainstream culture, Lorraine York examines it in relation to various tensions and conflicts within the literary community and beyond. Literary Celebrity in Canada is the first extended study of the dynamics of celebrity in the field of Canadian literature. In recent years, Canadian authors have enjoyed tremendous international success, writing novels that become Oscar-nominated films or achieve coveted success as selections for the Oprah Winfrey bookclub.
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