Authorship : from Plato to postmodernism : a reader / Sean Burke.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Burke, Sean, 1961- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Authorship.

Authorship in literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (381 pages)

Place of Publication:

Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, 2008.

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.

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

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781474465519

147446551X