Sous la direction de Stephen DONOVAN, Danuta FJELLESTAD et RolfLUNDÉN:

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

Isbn: 978-90-420-2483-0

62€  / 90 US$

Présentation de l'éditeur

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

Table

StephenDONOVAN, 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 PrintedAuthority

JamesCHANDLER: Foucault and Disciplinary Authority

JeremyHAWTHORN: Authority and the Death of the Author

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

II:Practising Authorship

JeromeMCGANN: The Life of the Dead: Laura Riding and the History of Twentieth-CenturyPoetry

AnnaLINZIE: “Between Two Covers with Somebody Else”: Authority, Authorship, and TheAutobiography of Alice B. Toklas

StephenDONOVAN: In the Papers: Hardy, Joyce, and the Modernist Moment

SusanJONES: Knowing the Dancer: Modernism, Choreography, and the Question ofAuthority

MichaelTITLESTAD: Unsettled Whiteness: The Limits of Allegory in Three South AfricanNovels

III:Authors On Authority

MichaelJOYCE: Authorship as Re-placement

AnnFISHER-WIRTH: The Authority of Poetry

Notes onContributors

Index