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Authorship : From Plato to the Postmodern: A Reader / Seán Burke.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2022]Copyright date: ©1995Description: 1 online resource (384 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780748606184
  • 9781474465519
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 801
LOC classification:
  • PN145.B87 1995
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction: Reconstructing the Author -- Part 1: The Aesthetic and Textual Debate -- Section 1: Changing Conceptions of Authorship -- 1. Plato from Ion -- 2. Plato from The Republic -- 3. 'The Significance of the Medieval Theory of Authorship -- 4. from An Apology for Poetry -- 5. 'Conjectures on Original Composition -- 6. from 'A Defence of Poetry' -- 7. from 'Crisis in Verse' -- 8. 'Creative Writers and Day-Dreaming -- Section 2: The Twentieth-century Controversy -- 9. Tradition and the Individual Talent' -- 10. 'Literature and Biography' -- 11. 'The Intentional Fallacy' -- 12. 'Criticism and the Experience of Interiority -- 13. Validity in Interpretation -- 14. The Exorbitant. Question of Method -- 15. The Death of the Author -- 16. A Meditation upon Priority, and a Synopsis -- Part 2: The Politics of Authorship -- Section 1: Feminism and the Authorial Subject -- 17. The Madwoman in the Attic -- 18. Castration or Decapitation?' -- 19. 'Feminist Tracks' -- 20. Changing the Subject: Authorship, Writing and the Reader' -- Section 2: Ideologies and Authorship -- 21. Writing For One's Age' -- 22. 'Creation and Production -- 23. What Is an Author?' -- 24. What Was an Author?' -- 25. Author' -- 26. Postcolonialism and the Author: The Case of Salman Rushdie -- 27. The Ethics of Signature' -- 28. Taking Philosophy Seriously' -- Part 3: Writing the Self -- 29. Essays -- 30. Second Meditation -- 31. Why I Am a Destiny -- 32. Pierre Menard, Author of the Quixote'; 'Kafka and His Precursors'; 'Everything and Nothing'; 'Borges and I' -- Index
Summary: This reader 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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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction: Reconstructing the Author -- Part 1: The Aesthetic and Textual Debate -- Section 1: Changing Conceptions of Authorship -- 1. Plato from Ion -- 2. Plato from The Republic -- 3. 'The Significance of the Medieval Theory of Authorship -- 4. from An Apology for Poetry -- 5. 'Conjectures on Original Composition -- 6. from 'A Defence of Poetry' -- 7. from 'Crisis in Verse' -- 8. 'Creative Writers and Day-Dreaming -- Section 2: The Twentieth-century Controversy -- 9. Tradition and the Individual Talent' -- 10. 'Literature and Biography' -- 11. 'The Intentional Fallacy' -- 12. 'Criticism and the Experience of Interiority -- 13. Validity in Interpretation -- 14. The Exorbitant. Question of Method -- 15. The Death of the Author -- 16. A Meditation upon Priority, and a Synopsis -- Part 2: The Politics of Authorship -- Section 1: Feminism and the Authorial Subject -- 17. The Madwoman in the Attic -- 18. Castration or Decapitation?' -- 19. 'Feminist Tracks' -- 20. Changing the Subject: Authorship, Writing and the Reader' -- Section 2: Ideologies and Authorship -- 21. Writing For One's Age' -- 22. 'Creation and Production -- 23. What Is an Author?' -- 24. What Was an Author?' -- 25. Author' -- 26. Postcolonialism and the Author: The Case of Salman Rushdie -- 27. The Ethics of Signature' -- 28. Taking Philosophy Seriously' -- Part 3: Writing the Self -- 29. Essays -- 30. Second Meditation -- 31. Why I Am a Destiny -- 32. Pierre Menard, Author of the Quixote'; 'Kafka and His Precursors'; 'Everything and Nothing'; 'Borges and I' -- Index

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This reader 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.

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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