Authority matters : rethinking the theory and practice of authorship / edited by Stephen Donovan, Danuta Fjellestad, Rolf Lunden.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Ebooks Corporation.

Donovan, Stephen, 1970-

Zadworna-Fjellestad, Danuta.

Lundén, Rolf.

Series:

DQR studies in literature ; 43.

DQR studies in literature ; 43

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Authorship.

Literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (317 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam : Rodopi, c2008.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Preliminary material / Editors Authority Matters

INTRODUCTION: AUTHOR, AUTHORSHIP, AUTHORITY, AND OTHERMATTERS / Stephen Donovan , Danuta Fjellestad and Rolf Lundén

THE BIRTH OF THE AUTHOR: THE ORIGINS OF EARLY MODERN PRINTED AUTHORITY / STEPHEN B. DOBRANSKI

FOUCAULT AND DISCIPLINARY AUTHORITY / JAMES CHANDLER

AUTHORITY AND THE DEATH OF THE AUTHOR / JEREMY HAWTHORN

AUTHORITY AND THE SOCIAL LOGIC OF RECOGNITION: POETICS, POLITICS AND SOCIAL THEORY / BO G. EKELUND

THE LIFE OF THE DEAD: LAURA RIDING AND THE HISTORY OF TWENTIETH-CENTURY POETRY / JEROME MCGANN

“BETWEEN TWO COVERS WITH SOMEBODY ELSE”: AUTHORITY, AUTHORSHIP, AND THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF ALICE B. TOKLAS / ANNA LINZIE

IN THE PAPERS: HARDY, JOYCE, AND THE MODERNISTMOMENT / STEPHEN DONOVAN

KNOWING THE DANCER: MODERNISM, CHOREOGRAPHY, AND THE QUESTION OF AUTHORITY / SUSAN JONES

UNSETTLEDWHITENESS: THE LIMITS OF ALLEGORY IN THREE SOUTH AFRICAN NOVELS / MICHAEL TITLESTAD

AUTHORSHIP AS RE-PLACEMENT / MICHAEL JOYCE

THE AUTHORITY OF POETRY / ANN FISHER-WIRTH

NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS / Editors Authority Matters

INDEX / Editors Authority Matters.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographic references and index.

ISBN:

94-012-0646-5

1-4356-9525-9

OCLC:

301983542

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789401206464 DOI