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Deaths of the Author (eBook, PDF)

Reading and Writing in Time

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Produktbeschreibung

For thirty years the "e;death of the author"e; has been a familiar poststructuralist slogan in literary theory, widely understood and much debated as a dismissal of the author, a declaration of the writer's irrelevance to the readers experience. In this concise book, Jane Gallop revitalizes this hackneyed concept by considering not only the abstract theoretical death of the author but also the writer's literal death, as well as other authorial "e;deaths"e; such as obsolescence. Through bravura close readings of the influential literary theorists Roland Barthes, Jacques Derrida, Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, and Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, she shows that the death of the author is best understood as a relation to temporality, not only for the reader but especially for the writer. Gallop does not just approach the death of the author from the reader's perspective; she also reflects at length on how impending death haunts the writer. By connecting an author's theoretical, literal, and metaphoric deaths, she enables us to take a fuller measure of the moving and unsettling effects of the deaths of the author on readers and writers, and on reading and writing.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 184
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. August 2011
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780822394532
• Artikelnr.: 54817684

Autorenporträt

Jane Gallop

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments vii
Introduction 1
Part I. The Friendly Return of the Author 27
1. The Author Is Dead but I Desire the Author 29
2. The Ethics of Indecency 55
Part II. If I Were a Writer and Dead 85
3. The Queer Temporality of Writing 87
4. The Persistent and Vanishing Present 115
Notes 145
Works Cited 163
Index 167