Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Figures vii
4. Acknowledgments ix
5. Introduction 1
6. Chapter One. “Heroes with Names”: What Is the Author? 8
7. Chapter Two. “I Don’t Own It”: Contemporary Complications 23
8. Chapter Three. Who Is the Author / Who Are the Authors? 42
9. Chapter Four. A Brief History of the Author 63
10. Chapter Five. The Alleged Death of the Author: Post-structuralism and Postmodernism 93
11. Chapter Six. The Author and Technology : Downloading vs. Copyright 108
12. Chapter Seven. Big Data Writing : Author as Algorithm 135
13. Chapter Eight. AI vs. the Author 146
14. Chapter Nine. “Creative Reuse”: Post-authorship in Internet Culture 160
15. Epilogue: The Near-Death, Not the Death, of the Author 172
16. Notes 175
17. Bibliography 193
18. Index 205