Authorship: From Plato to the Postmodern: A Reader

Seán Burke

Published by Edinburgh University Press 1995

Authorship

From Plato to the Postmodern: A Reader

Seán Burke

https://doi.org/10.1515/9781474465519

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About this book

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.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	v
Preface Publicly Available Download PDF	ix
Introduction: Reconstructing the Author Publicly Available Download PDF	xv
Part 1: The Aesthetic and Textual Debate
Section 1: Changing Conceptions of Authorship
1. Plato from Ion Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	13
2. Plato from The Republic Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	19
3. 'The Significance of the Medieval Theory of Authorship A. Minnis Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	23
4. from An Apology for Poetry Philip Sidney Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	31
5. 'Conjectures on Original Composition Edward Young Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	37
6. from 'A Defence of Poetry' Percy Shelley Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	43
7. from 'Crisis in Verse' Stephane Mallarme Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	51
8. 'Creative Writers and Day-Dreaming Sigmund Freud Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	54
Section 2: The Twentieth-century Controversy
9. Tradition and the Individual Talent' T. Eliot Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	73
10. 'Literature and Biography' Boris Tomasevskij Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	81
11. 'The Intentional Fallacy' W. Wimsatt and Monroe Beardsley Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	90
12. 'Criticism and the Experience of Interiority Georges Poulet Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	101
13. Validity in Interpretation E. Hirsch Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	108
14. The Exorbitant. Question of Method Jacques Derrida Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	117
15. The Death of the Author Roland Barthes Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	125
16. A Meditation upon Priority, and a Synopsis Harold Bloom Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	131
Part 2: The Politics of Authorship
Section 1: Feminism and the Authorial Subject
17. The Madwoman in the Attic Sandra Gilbert and Susan Gubar Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	151
18. Castration or Decapitation?' Helene Cixous Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	162
19. 'Feminist Tracks' Alice Jardine Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	178
20. Changing the Subject: Authorship, Writing and the Reader' Nancy Miller Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	193
Section 2: Ideologies and Authorship
21. Writing For One's Age' Jean Sartre Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	223
22. 'Creation and Production Pierre Macherey Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	230
23. What Is an Author?' Michel Foucault Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	233
24. What Was an Author?' Molly Nesbit Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	247
25. Author' Donald Pease Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	263
26. Postcolonialism and the Author: The Case of Salman Rushdie Maire Fhlathuin Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	277
27. The Ethics of Signature' Sean Burke Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	285
28. Taking Philosophy Seriously' Richard Rorty Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	292
Part 3: Writing the Self
29. Essays Michel Montaigne Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	309
30. Second Meditation Rene Descartes Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	312
31. Why I Am a Destiny Friedrich Nietzsche Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	320
32. Pierre Menard, Author of the Quixote'; 'Kafka and His Precursors'; 'Everything and Nothing'; 'Borges and I' Jorge Borges Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	328
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	340

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Language: English
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Audience: College/higher education;
Pages
- Main content: 384
Keywords: Literary Studies

eBook

Published: February 7, 2022
ISBN: 9781474465519