num_pages: 216
description: PIn the late twentieth century, the death of the author assumed a significance analogous to the death of God. In this now classic study, Seaacute;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 philosophically untenable. Rather than develop a traditionally humanist defense, Burke effectively out-theorizes theory through rigorous readings that demonstrate the concept of the author remains profoundly active even and especially as its disappearance is being articulated. The question of the author, he argues, is not a question within theory but the question iof/i theory.brIn this substantial third edition, Burke further explores the challenges faced by a theory of the author that has "still to come." Prompted by the response to Jacques Derrida's death in 2004, Burke revisits the enigmatic borders between life and work, life and (authorial) death.
language: English
title: The Death and Return of the Author: Criticism and Subjectivity in Barthes, Foucault, and Derrida
titlecomplete: The Death and Return of the Author: Criticism and Subjectivity in Barthes, Foucault, and Derrida (Modern Scottish Writers)
genres: Theory, Philosophy, Nonfiction, Literary Criticism
ratings_count: 25
publisher: Edinburgh Univ Pr