In contemporary thought, the death of the author has assumed a significance comparable only to the death of God in the 19th century. This work offers an explanation of anti-authorialism and shows how, even taken in its own terms, the attempt to abolish the author is fundamentally misguided and philosophically untenable. This updated edition features a section challenging Derrida's reading of Plato as the founder of logocentrism; an epilogue which deals with the politics of authorship and issues of technology; and an updated bibliography.
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The author--killed in Paris, embalmed at Yale, mourned in Cambridge--makes a sly and spectral return in this marvelous book. -- The Guardian
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Seán Burke is a lecturer in English at the University of Durham.
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Late in 1987, a short article run by the New York Times under the title 'Yale Scholar's Articles Found in Nazi Paper' set in motion a process of re-evaluation not only of Paul de Man's career as a theorist but of the deconstructive movement in whose name h Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
authorial disappearance, psychobiographical signified, authorial absence, authorial subjectivity, modern episteme, transcendental subjectivity, dangerous supplement, ofthe author, wartime writings Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Roland Barthes, Sade Fourier Loyola, Michel Foucault, Jacques Derrida, Jean Jacques Rousseau, King Thamus, Russian Formalists, Harold Bloom, Plato's Phaedrus, Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, Jorge Luis Borges, New Critical, Seventh Letter, The Post Card New!
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Late in 1987, a short article run by the New York Times under the title 'Yale Scholar's Articles Found in Nazi Paper' set in motion a process of re-evaluation not only of Paul de Man's career as a theorist but of the deconstructive movement in whose name h Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
authorial disappearance, psychobiographical signified, authorial absence, authorial subjectivity, modern episteme, transcendental subjectivity, dangerous supplement, ofthe author, wartime writings Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Roland Barthes, Sade Fourier Loyola, Michel Foucault, Jacques Derrida, Jean Jacques Rousseau, King Thamus, Russian Formalists, Harold Bloom, Plato's Phaedrus, Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, Jorge Luis Borges, New Critical, Seventh Letter, The Post Card New!
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- The Order of Things: An Archaeology of the Human Sciences by Michel Foucault on 34 pages
- Michel Foucault the Will to Truth (Social Science Paperbacks) by Sheridan on 8 pages
- Madness and Civilization (Routledge Classics) by Michel Foucault on 6 pages
- Camera Lucida: Reflections on Photography by Roland Barthes on 5 pages
- The Pleasure of the Text by Roland Barthes on 5 pages
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- Poetics Of Self And Form In Keats And Shelley: Nietzschean Subjectivity And Genre (Nineteenth Century) by Mark Sandy in Front Matter, page 4, and Back Matter
- The Medieval Author in Medieval French Literature (Studies in Arthurian and Courtly Cultures) by Virginie Green on page 227, page 228, and Back Matter
- Plagiarism and Literary Property in the Romantic Period (Material Texts) by Tilar J. Mazzeo in Front Matter, Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Literature and the Philosophy of Intention by Patrick Swinden in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- The Critique of Theological Reason by James P. Mackey on page 52, page 100, and page 104
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