"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"--
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.
Although Swift is a perennial subject in the media, cast in both a positive and a negative light, few professional scholars have considered her ever-growing body of work. The Literary Taylor Swift examines Swift's significance and timeliness through literary analysis and theory.
Taylor Swift has been celebrated for her ability to craft immersive narratives and to articulate, with lyrical acuity, a broad range of emotional experiences, and her lyrics underscore her profound relationship with text. The Literary Taylor Swift explores Swift's engagements, intertextual and otherwise, with literature and treats her songs as literature-as, that is, stories, poems, and other textual forms to which literary-critical theories and methodologies can and should be productively applied. This collection offers carefully curated arguments constellated around four key relationships: 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.
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Taylor Swifts artistic and commercial success has not just impacted the language of music, but language itself. This far-reaching volume approaches the superstar from every angle to assess the way Swift reflects and shapes literary cultureand why it matters not just to fans, but to everyone with a voice and a pen. * Nate Sloan, Assistant Professor of Musicology, University of Southern California, USA, and co-host of Switched on Pop * This volume addresses a significant Blank Space in literary scholarship, and it does so with Style. It is a detailed and comprehensive testament to the cultural impact, lyrical versatility, and complex intertextuality of a global pop phenomenon. * Elly McCausland, Professor of English Literature, Ghent University, Belgium * The Literary Taylor Swift is a proleptic entry into the library of The Tortured Poets Department, anticipating what Swift made explicit on her latest record. Written prior to its release, the eras-spanning essays go way beyond decoding Swift's carefully placed Easter eggs. The editors and contributors prove that the singer-songwriter's work is worthy of continued academic scrutiny with approaches that range from explorations of intertexts to applications of theories of gender and race. Essential reading for scholars, teachers, and students of the self-proclaimed chairman's body of musical and poetic work. * Katie Kapurch, Professor of English, Texas State University, USA, and author of Victorian Melodrama in the 21st Century (2016) * This represents the first full-length publication to centre around Swifts lyrical output, rather than the singer-songwriter herself The breadth and depth of the volume make its various chapters relevant not only to literary scholars but also to musicologists, sociologists and linguists, among others It should also appeal to non-academic readers. -- Naomi Adam * Journal of Language and Pop Culture *
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Studies Taylor Swift's lyrics in relation to the "literary," expanding the critical discourse surrounding Swift as a prolific songwriter.
Introduction: Blank Spaces, Fresh Pages: Taylor Swift and/as Literature
Betsy Tontiplaphol, Trinity University, USA, and Anastasia Klimchynskaya,
Loyola University Chicago, USA
Part 1: All of the Books Beside Your Bed: Engaging the Literary-Historical
Canon
1. I havent met the new me yet: folklore/evermore and Taylor Swifts
Self-Fashioned Renaissance
Devori Kimbro, University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, USA
2. Big Reputation: Reading Taylor Swift and/with 18th-Century Women Writers
Bridget Donnelly, Middle Tennessee State University, USA
3. Just to break me like a promise: Taylor Swift as Romantic Heroine
Rita J. Dashwood, Edge Hill University, UK
4. What are my 'Wordsworth'?: Taylor Swifts New Romanticism
Brittany Reid, Thompson Rivers University, Canada, and Taylor McKee, Brock
University, Canada
5. Baby, We're the Late Romantics: Taylor Swift and the English Biedermeier
Betsy Winakur Tontiplaphol, Trinity University, USA
6. Modernist Intertextualities in folklore and evermore
Jennifer Smith, North Central College, Illinois, USA
Part 2: Every Version of Yourself Tonight: Examining Gender, Sexuality, and
Race
7. The Death of the Pop Auteur: Taylor Swifts Feminist Politics of
Collaboration and Revision
Stephen Grandchamp, University of Maine at Farmington, USA
8. No one likes a mad woman: The Crazy Ex-Girlfriend Trope and/as Feminist
Resistance in Taylor Swifts Music and Mythology
Ryanne Kap, University of Calgary, Canada
9. Female Millennial Rage: The Weaponization of Cottagecore
Katherine Murray, Independent Scholar
10. She wouldve made such a lovely bride: Queer Anxieties on folklore and
evermore
Erin Geary, Independent Scholar
11. What It Means to Shake It Off: Taylor Swift, Race, and Citizenship
Shaun Cullen, Independent Scholar
Part 3: Time, Curious Time: (Re-)Writing Memory
12. Time, curious time: Memory, Agency, and Elastic Temporality in Taylor
Swift
Miranda Steege, University of California, Riverside, USA
13. Say youll remember me all too well: Taylor Swifts Mobilizing and
Monopolizing Memory Work
Maggie Laurel Boyd, Boston University, USA
14. Scrap[ s] of you: Textures of Loss in Swifts folklore and evermore
Claire Hurley, University of Kent, UK
15. "The corner I haunt": Trauma, Time, and Space in Taylor Swift's
Post-Hiatus Oeuvre
Carolin Isabel Steiner, Hochschule Mittweida, Germany
Part 4: This Aint a Fairy Tale: Considering Craft, Genre, and Mediation
16. Show, Dont Tell? How Taylor Swift Does Both and Complicates a Writing
Cliché
Samantha Bañal, Independent Scholar
17. "I never knew I could feel that much": Taylor Swift's Recuperative
Aesthetics of Excess
Anastasia Klimchynskaya, Loyola University Chicago, USA
18. The Paradox of Defamiliarization and Hyperfamiliarity in Taylor Swifts
Songwriting
Margrét Ann Thors, University of Iceland
19. This is me trying: Autofiction and Taylor Swift
Maria Juko, University of Hamburg, Germany
20. (Taylors Version): Authenticity and Aura in Taylor Swifts
Re-Recordings
Meghan Kuehnle, The Ohio State University, USA
Contributors
Index
Betsy Winakur Tontiplaphol is Professor of English at Trinity University in San Antonio, Texas, USA, where she specializes in 19th-century British literature, particularly Romantic poetry. In addition to numerous essays, she is the author of Poetics of Luxury in the Nineteenth Century: Keats, Tennyson, and Hopkins (2011) and The Pointe of the Pen: Nineteenth-Century Poetry and the Balletic Imagination (2021).
Anastasia Klimchynskaya is Visiting Assistant Professor of English at Illinois Wesleyan University in Bloomington, Illinois, USA. She specializes in 19th-century literature in its intersections with science, technology, and the cultural imagination, and has published widely on "popular" genres such as detective, Gothic, and science fiction.
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