Authority Matters
Rethinking the Theory and Practice of Authorship
Published on 1. January 2008
Book
Hardback
308 pages
978-90-420-2483-0 (ISBN)
Description
In 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.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Leiden
Netherlands
Publishing group
Brill
Target group
College/higher education
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
Dimensions
Height: 236 mm
Width: 156 mm
Thickness: 27 mm
Weight
676 gr
ISBN-13
978-90-420-2483-0 (9789042024830)
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Content
Stephen DONOVAN, Danuta FJELLESTAD and Rolf LUNDEN: 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
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