The Death and Return of the Author: Criticism and Subjectivity in Barthes, Foucault and Derrida - Softcover

Burke, Se�n

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9780748610068: The Death and Return of the Author: Criticism and Subjectivity in Barthes, Foucault and Derrida

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ISBN 10: 0748610065 ISBN 13: 9780748610068

Publisher: Edinburgh University Press, 1998

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In contemporary thought, the death of the author has assumed a significance comparable only to the death of God in the nineteenth century, yet no clear statement of what is meant by this notion has emerged in critical theory. In this study, now extensively revised and updated, Se�n Burke provides the first detailed explanation of anti-authorialism and shows how, even taken on its own terms, the attempt to abolish the author is fundamentally misguided and philosophically untenable. This second edition features a new section on Derrida and an epilogue dealing with the politics of authorship and issues of technology; and a fully updated bibliography.

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Se�n Burke is a lecturer in English at the University of Durham.

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The author--killed in Paris, embalmed at Yale, mourned in Cambridge--makes a sly and spectral return in this marvelous book. -- The Guardian

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