Authorship's wake : writing after the death of the author / Philip Sayers.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Sayers, Philip, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Authorship--Philosophy.

Authorship.

Critical theory.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (225 pages) : illustrations

Edition:

First edition.

Distribution:

[London, England] : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2020

Place of Publication:

London [England] : Bloomsbury Academic, 2020.

Summary:

"A book about writers and thinkers who were taught that the author is dead how their work consequently negotiates what it means to be an author"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Cover

Contents

Introduction: "Words Streaming in Your Wake"

1. Sole Authors

2. Writing After

3. Communication, Intention, Agency, Labor

Chapter 1 Communication: Maggie Nelson and the Literary Text as Letter

1. Introduction

2. Letters

2.1. The Literary Text as Letter

2.2. Epistolarity and The Argonauts

2.3. The Risks of Letter-Writing

2.4. Silence

3. Communication, Nonsense, and Space

3.1. "Whereof One Cannot Speak"

3.2. Acknowledged Nonsense

3.3. Space

3.4. The Work of the Reader

4. The Argonauts and the Ethics of Space

4.1. Fragments

4.2. Allusions and Family-Making

Chapter 2 Intention: The Inconsistent Anti-Intentionalism of Zadie Smith and Judith Butler

1.1. Consulting the Oracle

1.2. Intention and the Authorship Debates

2. On Beauty and Anti-Intentionalism

2.1. Zadie Smith and the Return to Authorial Intention

2.2. On Beauty against the Critique of Intention

2.3. On Beauty and Psychoanalysis

2.4. On Beauty and Critique

3. The Humanities Quandary

3.1. Judith Butler and the Humanities Quandary

3.2. Howard Belsey and the Humanities Quandary

3.3. "In Effect If Not in Intent"

4. Conclusion

Chapter 3 Agency: Roland Barthes and the Men Who Hold Forth

1.1. "Mr. Very Important"

1.2. "Men Explain Things to Me" in Context

2. Autofiction versus the Man Who Holds Forth

2.1. I Love Dick

2.2. How Should a Person Be?

2.3. 10:04

2.4. "What Is It to Hold Forth?"

3. Roland Barthes, Man Who Holds Forth?

3.1. The Charge of Apoliticism

3.2. Barthes and Queer Politics

3.3. Barthes and Post-1968 Orientalism

3.4. Barthes and Feminism

3.5. Barthes as Teacher and Author

Chapter 4 Labor: David Foster Wallace, Cowboy of Information

1.1. Bureaucratizing Writing

2. Accountants, Writers, and Cowboys

2.1. On Amy Hungerford Not Reading DFW

2.2. Accountants

2.3. Writers

2.4. Cowboys

3. Two Broad Arcs

3.1. Neoliberalism and Information Work

3.2. Low Theory

Conclusion: Study Groups

Acknowledgments

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not viewed.

ISBN:

9781501367700

1501367706

9781501367694

1501367692

9781501367687

1501367684

OCLC:

1183397561