S, Donovan,  D. Fjellestad, R. Lundén (dir.), Authority Matters. Rethinking the Theory and Practice of Authorship.

Sous la direction de Stephen DONOVAN, Danuta FJELLESTAD et Rolf LUNDÉN:

Authority Matters. Rethinking the Theory and Practice of Authorship, Amsterdam/New York, Rodopi, 2008, coll."DQR Studies in Literature" n°43, VI-302 p.

Isbn: 978-90-420-2483-0

62€  /  90 US$

Présentation de l'éditeur

In this wide ranging collection of essays, eleven literary scholars and creative writers examine authorship and authority in relation to the production and reception of cultural texts. Ranging in time from the Renaissance to the era of digital publishing, the essays invite us to reconsider the influential theories of Roland Barthes, Michel Foucault, and Pierre Bourdieu for our understanding of writers such as Philip Sydney, Thomas Hardy, Laura Riding, W.B. Yeats, Gertrude Stein, and J.M. Coetzee. Shedding new light on authority's complex role in the generation of cultural meaning, the essays will be of interest to students and teachers of literary history and critical theory alike.

Table

Stephen DONOVAN, Danuta FJELLESTAD and Rolf LUNDÉN: Introduction: Author, Authorship, Authority, and Other Matters

I: Theoretical Considerations

Stephen B. DOBRANSKI: The Birth of the Author: The Origins of Early Modern Printed Authority

James CHANDLER: Foucault and Disciplinary Authority

Jeremy HAWTHORN: Authority and the Death of the Author

Bo G. EKELUND: Authority and the Social Logic of Recognition: Poetics, Politics and Social Theory

II: Practising Authorship

Jerome MCGANN: The Life of the Dead: Laura Riding and the History of Twentieth-Century Poetry

Anna LINZIE: “Between Two Covers with Somebody Else”: Authority, Authorship, and The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas

Stephen DONOVAN: In the Papers: Hardy, Joyce, and the Modernist Moment

Susan JONES: Knowing the Dancer: Modernism, Choreography, and the Question of Authority

Michael TITLESTAD: Unsettled Whiteness: The Limits of Allegory in Three South African Novels

III: Authors On Authority

Michael JOYCE: Authorship as Re-placement

Ann FISHER-WIRTH: The Authority of Poetry

Notes on Contributors

Index