After Words : : Suicide and Authorship in Twentieth-Century Italy /

After Words : : Suicide and Authorship in Twentieth-Century Italy / / Elizabeth Leake.

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After Words investigates the ways in which the suicide of a writer informs critical interpretations of his or her works. Suicide is a revision as well as a form of authorship, both on the part of the author, who has written his/her final scene and revised the 'natural' course of his/her li...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter UTP eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2015
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Leake, Elizabeth,
Place / Publishing House:Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2016]
©2010
Year of Publication:2016
Language:English
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction: The Death of the Author
  • 1. The Posthumous Author: Guido Morselli, Giuseppe Rensi, Jacques Monod
  • 2. The Corpus and the Corpse: Amelia Rosselli, Jacques Derrida, Sylvia Plath, Sarah Kofman
  • 3. The Post-Biological Author: Cesare Pavese, Gianni Vattimo, Emanuele Severino
  • 4. Commemoration and Erasure: Primo Levi, Giorgio Agamben, Avishai Margalit
  • Postscript: Learning from the Dead
  • Notes
  • Works Consulted
  • Index

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