Title: The author's intention /
Authors: Mitscherling, Jeffrey Anthony.; DiTommaso, Tanya, 1970-; Nayad, Aref, 1962-
Publisher: Lexington Books,
Year: 2004
Subjects: Authorship Philosophy
Abstract: "At the start of the twenty-first century literary theorists find themselves reflecting on their discipline. Since at least 1969, the humanities and social sciences have seen the rise of Marxist critical theory, Foucault (or discourse and the new historicism), various schools of American and European cultural studies, deconstruction, and poststructuralism. One of the major coups of the past thirty years, from which all of the previously mentioned theoretical camps benefited, was the attack on and subsequent death of authorial intentionality. In The Author's Intention coauthors Jeff Mitscherling, Tanya DiTommaso, and Aref Nayed divert the current philosophical misrepresentation of authorial intention.