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This anthology provides a solid theoretical base for all those encountering the 'author' debate for the first time. It presents key readings from the main writers on authorship, including pieces from Plato, Descartes, Shelley, Freud, T. S. Eliot, Sartre, Derrida, Foucault and Borges, and puts the authorship debates into historical context.

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Highly recommended ! -- Patrick Evans Highly recommended !

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The aesthetic and textual debate: changing conceptions of authorship; the 20th-century controversy. The politics of authorship: feminism and the authorial subject; ideologies of authorship. Self and text.

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      Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
      Publication Date: 10/04/1995
      ISBN13: 9780748606184, 978-0748606184
      ISBN10: 0748606181
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      Description

      Book Synopsis
      This anthology provides a solid theoretical base for all those encountering the 'author' debate for the first time. It presents key readings from the main writers on authorship, including pieces from Plato, Descartes, Shelley, Freud, T. S. Eliot, Sartre, Derrida, Foucault and Borges, and puts the authorship debates into historical context.

      Trade Review
      Highly recommended ! -- Patrick Evans Highly recommended !

      Table of Contents
      The aesthetic and textual debate: changing conceptions of authorship; the 20th-century controversy. The politics of authorship: feminism and the authorial subject; ideologies of authorship. Self and text.

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