The Death and Return of the Author : : Criticism and Subjectivity in Barthes, Foucault and Derrida /

The Death and Return of the Author : : Criticism and Subjectivity in Barthes, Foucault and Derrida / / Seán Burke.

For the late twentieth century, the death of the author assumed a significance analogous to the death of God one hundred years previously. In this now classic study, Seán Burke both provides the first detailed explanation of anti-authorialism and shows how, even taken on its own terms, the attempt t...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Edinburgh University Press Backlist eBook-Package 2013-2000
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Burke, Seán,
Place / Publishing House:Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022]
©2008
Year of Publication:2022
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (312 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Preface to Second Edition
  • Preface to Third Edition: The ‘Life Death’ of the Author
  • Acknowledgements
  • Prologue: The Deaths of Paul de Man
  • Introduction: A Prehistory of the Death of the Author
  • 1 The Birth of the Reader
  • 2 The Author and the Death of Man
  • 3 Misread Intentions
  • Conclusion: Critic and Author
  • Epilogue
  • Appendix 1: The Biographical Imperative
  • Appendix 2: The Author as Reader
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index

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