Autore
De Michelis, Lidia

Titolo
Haunted Narratives: Politics, Fiction and Ghostwriting in Robert Harris's The Ghost
Periodico
Textus
Anno: 2012 - Volume: 25 - Fascicolo: 3 - Pagina iniziale: 75 - Pagina finale: 88

Taking as case study Robert Harris's The Ghost, and focusing on the 'poetics'of ghostwriting and multiple, disseminated authorship, this article aims tohighlight the crucial intersections between truth and fiction, authenticityand self-deception and the disembodying of public accountability fromboth the political subject and the literary author, made possible by theemergence of professional speechwriters and celebrity politicians.Suggestively embedded in this subtly intertextual novel are a number ofGothic narrative structures and generic conventions, which range from thethematisation of ghostwriting as a spectral activity, to the pervasive use ofterms and images pertaining to the semantic areas of "haunting" and "theghostly", to neo-Gothic rewritings of landscapes and social milieus.



SICI: 1824-3967(2012)25:3<75:HNPFAG>2.0.ZU;2-4
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