The Death and Resurrection of the Author?

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William Irwin

Book Code: GM1870

ISBN: 0-313-31870-0

ISBN-13: 978-0-313-31870-2

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256 pages

Greenwood Press

Publication: 6/30/2002

List Price: $102.95 (UK Sterling Price: £59.95)

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Media Type: Hardcover

Also Available: Paperback

Trim Size: 6 1/8 x 9 1/4

Subjects:

Philosophy » Philosophical Theory
Literature » Critical Theory

Series Title: Contributions in Philosophy

Series Number: 83

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: 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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