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The Death and Resurrection of the Author?
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William Irwin
ISBN: 0-313-31870-0
ISBN-13: 978-0-313-31870-2
256 pages
Praeger Publishers
Publication: 6/30/2002
List Price: $102.95 (UK Sterling Price: £71.95)
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Media Type: Hardcover
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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
About the Author: WILLIAM IRWIN is Associate Professor of Philosophy at King's College, Pennsylvania./e He has published several articles on theory of interpretation and aesthetics, as well as four books, including Intentionalist Interpretation: A Philosophical Explanation and Defense (Greenwood, 1999).
LCC Class: 808
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