Authority matters : : rethinking the theory and practice of authorship / / edited by Stephen Donovan, Danuta Fjellestad, Rolf Lunden.

• Superior document: DQR studies in literature ; 43
• Author: Ebooks Corporation.
• TeilnehmendeR: Donovan, Stephen, 1970-; Zadworna-Fjellestad, Danuta.; Lunden, Rolf.; Ebooks Corporation.
• Year of Publication: 2008
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: DQR studies in literature ; 43.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (317 p.)
• Notes: Description based upon print version of record.
• Other title: Preliminary material /; INTRODUCTION: AUTHOR, AUTHORSHIP, AUTHORITY, AND OTHERMATTERS /; THE BIRTH OF THE AUTHOR: THE ORIGINS OF EARLY MODERN PRINTED AUTHORITY /; FOUCAULT AND DISCIPLINARY AUTHORITY /; AUTHORITY AND THE DEATH OF THE AUTHOR /; AUTHORITY AND THE SOCIAL LOGIC OF RECOGNITION: POETICS, POLITICS AND SOCIAL THEORY /; THE LIFE OF THE DEAD: LAURA RIDING AND THE HISTORY OF TWENTIETH-CENTURY POETRY /; “BETWEEN TWO COVERS WITH SOMEBODY ELSE”: AUTHORITY, AUTHORSHIP, AND THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF ALICE B. TOKLAS /; IN THE PAPERS: HARDY, JOYCE, AND THE MODERNISTMOMENT /; KNOWING THE DANCER: MODERNISM, CHOREOGRAPHY, AND THE QUESTION OF AUTHORITY /; UNSETTLEDWHITENESS: THE LIMITS OF ALLEGORY IN THREE SOUTH AFRICAN NOVELS /; AUTHORSHIP AS RE-PLACEMENT /; THE AUTHORITY OF POETRY /; NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS /; INDEX /
• Bibliography: Includes bibliographic references and index.
• ISBN: 9401206465; 1435695259
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: edited by Stephen Donovan, Danuta Fjellestad, Rolf Lunden.

In this wide ranging collection of essays, eleven literary scholars and creative writers examine authorship and authority in relation to the production and reception of cultural texts. Ranging in time from the Renaissance to the era of digital publishing, the essays invite us to reconsider the influential theories of Roland Barthes, Michel Foucault, and Pierre Bourdieu for our understanding of writers such as Philip Sidney, Thomas Hardy, Laura Riding, W.B. Yeats, Gertrude Stein, and J.M. Coetzee. Shedding new light on authority’s complex role in the generation of cultural meaning, the essays will be of interest to students and teachers of literary history and critical theory alike.