Elizabeth Leake

After Words

Suicide and Authorship in Twentieth-Century Italy

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

After Words investigates the ways in which the suicide of a writer informs critical interpretations of his or her works.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Toronto Press
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. Februar 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 157mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 540g
• ISBN-13: 9780802092793
• ISBN-10: 0802092799
• Artikelnr.: 29924247

Autorenporträt

Elizabeth Leake

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments
Introduction: The Death of the Author
1. The Posthumous Author: Guido Morselli, Giuseppe Rensi, Jacques Monod
2. The Corpus and the Corpse: Amelia Rosselli, Jacques Derrida, Sylvia
Plath, Sarah Kofman
3. The Post-Biological Author: Cesare Pavese, Gianni Vattimo, Emanuele
Severino
4. Commemoration and Erasure: Primo Levi, Giorgio Agamben, Avishai
Margalit
Postscript: Learning from the Dead
Notes
Works Consulted
Index