Annual literary prizes began life in 1903 in France with the founding of the Prix Goncourt, and they have proliferated there more than in other nations. Yet prizes are not always greeted by their recipient with unalloyed joy: an “antiprize rhetoric” is part of the standard response for to win the Goncourt, for example, “tient à la fois du banc d’infamie et de la légion d’Honneur,” as Sylvie Ducas puts it. Though of immense advantage to an author’s career and financial fortune, prizes are tainted not only by the cynical assumption of a corrupt relationship between publishing houses and juries, but also by the incompatibility between the image of the writer as solitary, authentic, and aesthetically ahead of his or her time, and the fact that ...
The main objective of this thesis is to examine the use of rhetorical devices pertaining to the disc...
Differences in promotion across genders are still prevalent in many occupations.Recent work based on...
Academic prizes have three problems: they feed an individualist ethos, perpetuate the idea of the ‘m...
Annual literary prizes began life in 1903 in France with the founding of the Prix Goncourt, and they...
This article examines and compares the gender balance among the laureates of France’s most long-stan...
Literary Prizes and Literary Creation in Great-Britain Over the last 25 years, more and more litera...
This article expresses some thoughts on the problematic relations between the French speaking writer...
In 2011, I conducted research on the Orange Prize for Fiction. Now called the Baileys Prize, it was ...
En s’attachant au prix Femina, l’auteure tient compte de la difficile inscription des écrivaines dan...
In 2005, the controversial novel We Need to Talk About Kevin by Lionel Shriver was published. I...
This essay explores the issue of gender and literary prize culture. By using data from three major A...
Recent studies have shown the obstacles and prejudice women authors had to overcome in 18th-century ...
We study the causal effect of literary awards on book sales, using France's most prestigious prize, ...
In June 2022, Costa Coffee announced that they would no longer be running the Costa Book Awards, one...
This article shows that the Booker Prize for fiction, which is neither the oldest nor the richest aw...
The main objective of this thesis is to examine the use of rhetorical devices pertaining to the disc...
Differences in promotion across genders are still prevalent in many occupations.Recent work based on...
Academic prizes have three problems: they feed an individualist ethos, perpetuate the idea of the ‘m...
Annual literary prizes began life in 1903 in France with the founding of the Prix Goncourt, and they...
This article examines and compares the gender balance among the laureates of France’s most long-stan...
Literary Prizes and Literary Creation in Great-Britain Over the last 25 years, more and more litera...
This article expresses some thoughts on the problematic relations between the French speaking writer...
In 2011, I conducted research on the Orange Prize for Fiction. Now called the Baileys Prize, it was ...
En s’attachant au prix Femina, l’auteure tient compte de la difficile inscription des écrivaines dan...
In 2005, the controversial novel We Need to Talk About Kevin by Lionel Shriver was published. I...
This essay explores the issue of gender and literary prize culture. By using data from three major A...
Recent studies have shown the obstacles and prejudice women authors had to overcome in 18th-century ...
We study the causal effect of literary awards on book sales, using France's most prestigious prize, ...
In June 2022, Costa Coffee announced that they would no longer be running the Costa Book Awards, one...
This article shows that the Booker Prize for fiction, which is neither the oldest nor the richest aw...
The main objective of this thesis is to examine the use of rhetorical devices pertaining to the disc...
Differences in promotion across genders are still prevalent in many occupations.Recent work based on...
Academic prizes have three problems: they feed an individualist ethos, perpetuate the idea of the ‘m...