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Authorship's Wake: Writing After the Death of the Author

by Philip Sayers
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Book cover type: Paperback
  • ISBN13: 9781501372186
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Subject: N/A
  • Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
  • Publisher Imprint: Bloomsbury Academic
  • Publication Date:
  • Pages: 224
  • Original Price: GBP 31.99
  • Language: English
  • Edition: N/A
  • Item Weight: 304 grams
  • BISAC Subject(s): Semiotics & Theory, Comparative Literature, and Modern / 20th Century

Authorship's Wake examines the aftermath of the 1960s critique of the author, epitomized by Roland Barthes's essay, "The Death of the Author." This critique has given rise to a body of writing that confounds generic distinctions separating the literary and the theoretical. Its archive consists of texts by writers who either directly participated in this critique, as Barthes did, or whose intellectual formation took place in its immediate aftermath. These writers include some who are known primarily as theorists (Judith Butler), others known primarily as novelists (Zadie Smith, David Foster Wallace), and yet others whose texts are difficult to categorize (the autofiction of Chris Kraus, Sheila Heti, and Ben Lerner; the autotheory of Maggie Nelson). These writers share not only a central motivating question - how to move beyond the critique of the author-subject - but also a way of answering it: by writing texts that merge theoretical concerns with literary discourse. Authorship's Wake traces the responses their work offers in relation to four themes: communication, intention, agency, and labor.

Sayers, Philip: - Philip Sayers received a PhD in English and Sexual Diversity Studies from the University of Toronto, Canada, where he continues to work in a research, teaching, and editing capacity. His research focuses on contemporary American literary culture and its intersections with other intellectual orientations within and beyond US borders, from queer theory, feminist theory, and black studies to continental philosophy and psychoanalysis.

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