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The Death and Resurrection of the Author?
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William Irwin
Book Code: GP2275
ISBN: 0-313-32275-9
ISBN-13: 978-0-313-32275-4
256 pages
Greenwood Press Paperback
Publication: 6/30/2002
List Price: $34.95 (UK Sterling Price: £19.95)
Availability: Print on demand
Media Type: Paperback
Also Available: Hardcover
Trim Size: 6 1/8 x 9 1/4
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  • Endorsement From Leslie Brisman
    Karl Young Professor of English
    Yale University:     Long after movements like deconstruction and post-modernism have faded from the forefront, literary critics and readers generally will feel the urgency of defining a position in regard to questions of authorial intention. From psychoanalysis to feminism, from New Criticism to cultural studies, some version of the question of who is doing the writing is at the center of 20th-century literary studies. This handsome collection of essays is at once itself a set of great landmarks and a Baedeker for 21st-century readers negotiating their way among author functions hidden, implied, real, unconscious, historically determined, disappeared in to the text, or effaced into the fabric of the culture itself.
  • Endorsement From Jeff Mitscherling
    Department of Philosophy
    University of Guelph,
    Ontario, Canada:     Irwin's collection includes provocative contributions by both analytic and continental thinkers to two of the central aspects of current debate--namely, the death of the author and the nature and function of author constructs. Irwin's collection may well force us to refocus the current debate in a more fruitful manner, and perhaps even to rethink the notion of intentionality itself.
Description: Have the reports of the author's death been greatly exaggerated? When Roland Barthes famously announced the "death of the author," he heralded a major new debate in modern literary criticism and aesthetics. This volume is a dialogical collection of key essays discussing the nature of authorship and the place, if any, of authorial intention in the interpretation of literary texts. Including seminal essays by Barthes and Foucault, along with other previously published and newly commissioned contributions, this collection examines the philosophical underpinnings and arguments of both sides of the debate.
Table of Contents:
  • Preface
  • Introduction
  • The Death of the Author
  • The Death of the Author by Roland Barthes
  • What Is an Author? by Michel Foucault
  • Kierkegaard and the Anxiety of Authorship by Merold Westphal
  • Gadamer's Hermeneutics and the Question of Authorial Intention by David Weberman
  • The Marginal Life of the Author by Jason Holt
  • The Death of the Author: An Analytical Autopsy by Peter Lamarque
  • The Resurrection of the Author? A Look at Author Constructs
  • Writer, Text, Work, Author by Alexander Nehamas
  • Authorship and Authority by Nickolas Pappas
  • Apparent, Implied, and Postulated Authors by Robert Stecker
  • Feminist Literary Criticism and the Author by Cheryl Walker
  • A Theory of the Author by Jorge J.E. Gracia
  • Intentionalism and Author Constructs by William Irwin
  • The Death of Cervantes and the Life of Don Quixote by Eric Bronson
  • Bibliography
  • Index
LC Card Number: 2001058634
LCC Class: PN175
Dewey Class: 808
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