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Authorship

From Plato to the Postmodern: A Reader
  • Seán Burke
Language: English
Published/Copyright: 1995
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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

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    Contents

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    Preface

    ix
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    Introduction: Reconstructing the Author

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  • Part 1: The Aesthetic and Textual Debate
  • Section 1: Changing Conceptions of Authorship
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    1. Plato from Ion

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    2. Plato from The Republic

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    3. 'The Significance of the Medieval Theory of Authorship

    23
    A. Minnis
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    4. from An Apology for Poetry

    31
    Philip Sidney
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    5. 'Conjectures on Original Composition

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    Edward Young
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    6. from 'A Defence of Poetry'

    43
    Percy Shelley
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    7. from 'Crisis in Verse'

    51
    Stephane Mallarme
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    8. 'Creative Writers and Day-Dreaming

    54
    Sigmund Freud
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  • Section 2: The Twentieth-century Controversy
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    9. Tradition and the Individual Talent'

    73
    T. Eliot
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    10. 'Literature and Biography'

    81
    Boris Tomasevskij
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    11. 'The Intentional Fallacy'

    90
    W. Wimsatt and Monroe Beardsley
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    12. 'Criticism and the Experience of Interiority

    101
    Georges Poulet
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    13. Validity in Interpretation

    108
    E. Hirsch
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    14. The Exorbitant. Question of Method

    117
    Jacques Derrida
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    15. The Death of the Author

    125
    Roland Barthes
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    16. A Meditation upon Priority, and a Synopsis

    131
    Harold Bloom
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  • Part 2: The Politics of Authorship
  • Section 1: Feminism and the Authorial Subject
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    17. The Madwoman in the Attic

    151
    Sandra Gilbert and Susan Gubar
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    18. Castration or Decapitation?'

    162
    Helene Cixous
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    19. 'Feminist Tracks'

    178
    Alice Jardine
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    20. Changing the Subject: Authorship, Writing and the Reader'

    193
    Nancy Miller
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  • Section 2: Ideologies and Authorship
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    21. Writing For One's Age'

    223
    Jean Sartre
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    22. 'Creation and Production

    230
    Pierre Macherey
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    23. What Is an Author?'

    233
    Michel Foucault
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    24. What Was an Author?'

    247
    Molly Nesbit
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    25. Author'

    263
    Donald Pease
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    26. Postcolonialism and the Author: The Case of Salman Rushdie

    277
    Maire Fhlathuin
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    27. The Ethics of Signature'

    285
    Sean Burke
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    28. Taking Philosophy Seriously'

    292
    Richard Rorty
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  • Part 3: Writing the Self
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    29. Essays

    309
    Michel Montaigne
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    30. Second Meditation

    312
    Rene Descartes
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    31. Why I Am a Destiny

    320
    Friedrich Nietzsche
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    32. Pierre Menard, Author of the Quixote'; 'Kafka and His Precursors'; 'Everything and Nothing'; 'Borges and I'

    328
    Jorge Borges
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    Index

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