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The Death and Return of the Author: Criticism and Subjectivity in Barthes, Foucault and Derrida
Dr. Sean Burke
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Paperback. In this now classic study, Sean Burke further explores the challenges faced by an authorial theory and revisits the enigmatic borderlines between life and work, life and (authorial) death. Num Pages: 312 pages. BIC Classification: DS. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 233 x 156 x 18. Weight in Grams: 478.
For the late twentieth century, the death of the author assumed a significance analogous to the death of God one hundred years previously. In this now classic 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 ... Read more
For the late twentieth century, the death of the author assumed a significance analogous to the death of God one hundred years previously. In this now classic 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 ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Edinburgh University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
312
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Condition
New
Weight
489g
Number of Pages
312
Place of Publication
Edinburgh, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780748637119
SKU
V9780748637119
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About Dr. Sean Burke
Sean Burke worked in the Department of English Studies at the University of Durham for thirteen years, and has now retired. His academic publications include The Death and Return of the Author: Criticism and Subjectivity in Barthes, Foucault and Derrida (3rd edn, 2008), Authorship: From Plato to the Postmodern: A Reader (1995) and The Ethics of Writing: Authorship and Legacy ... Read more
Reviews for The Death and Return of the Author: Criticism and Subjectivity in Barthes, Foucault and Derrida
Thanks largely to Burke, 'Author Studies' is now legitimate in literary academia...truly brilliant. Writing in Education Thanks largely to Burke, 'Author Studies' is now legitimate in literary academia...truly brilliant.