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Book SynopsisIn 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.
Table of ContentsStephen DONOVAN, Danuta FJELLESTAD and Rolf LUNDÉN: Introduction: Author, Authorship, Authority, and Other Matters I: Theoretical Considerations Stephen B. DOBRANSKI: The Birth of the Author: The Origins of Early Modern Printed Authority James CHANDLER: Foucault and Disciplinary Authority Jeremy HAWTHORN: Authority and the Death of the Author Bo G. EKELUND: Authority and the Social Logic of Recognition: Poetics, Politics and Social Theory II: Practising Authorship Jerome MCGANN: The Life of the Dead: Laura Riding and the History of Twentieth-Century Poetry Anna LINZIE: “Between Two Covers with Somebody Else”: Authority, Authorship, and The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas Stephen DONOVAN: In the Papers: Hardy, Joyce, and the Modernist Moment Susan JONES: Knowing the Dancer: Modernism, Choreography, and the Question of Authority Michael TITLESTAD: Unsettled Whiteness: The Limits of Allegory in Three South African Novels III: Authors On Authority Michael JOYCE: Authorship as Re-placement Ann FISHER-WIRTH: The Authority of Poetry Notes on Contributors Index
