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

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1. Verfasser:	Burke, Sean 1961- (VerfasserIn)
Format:	Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:	English
Veröffentlicht:	Edinburgh Edinburgh Univ. Press 2008
Ausgabe:	Third edition
Schlagworte:	Barthes, Roland Derrida, Jacques Foucault, Michel <1926-1984> Derrida, Jacques > 1930-2004 Barthes, Roland > 1915-1980 Foucault, Michel > 1926-1984 Philosophie Authorship > Philosophy Criticism Subjectivity Literaturkritik Subjektivität Autor Schriftsteller Negation
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Zusammenfassung:	"For the late twentieth century, the death of the author assumed a significance analagous to the death of God one hundred years previously. In this study, Sean Burke both provides the first detailed explanation of anti-authorialism and shows how, even taken on its own terms, the attempt to abolish the author is philosophically untenable. Rather than developing a traditionally humanist defence, Burke effectively out-theorises theory through rigorous readings which demonstrate that the concept of the author remained profoundly active even and especially as its disappearance was being articulated. The question of the author, he argues, is not a question within theory but the question of theory." "Building on a substantially revised second edition, Burke further explores the challenges faced by an authorial theory that is 'still to come'. Prompted by the responses to the passing of Jacques Derrida in 2004, he revisits the enigmatic borderlines between life and work, life and (authorial) death."--BOOK JACKET.
Beschreibung:	1 Online-Ressource (XXIV, 283 S.)
ISBN:	9780748672707