The Birth and Death of the Author
Title | The Birth and Death of the Author PDF eBook |
Author | Andrew J. Power |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 199 |
Release | 2020-07-09 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 0429859465 |
The Birth and Death of the Author is a work about the changing nature of authorship as a concept. In eight specialist interventions by a diverse group of the finest international scholars it tells a history of print authorship in a set of author case studies from the fifteenth to the twenty-first century. The introduction surveys the prehistory of print authorship and sets the historical and theoretical framework that opens the discussion for the seven succeeding chapters. Engaging particularly with the history of the materials and technology of authorship it places this in conversation with the critical history of the author up to and beyond the crisis of Barthes' 'Death of the Author'. As a multi-authored history of authorship itself, each subsequent chapter takes a single author or work from every century since the advent of print and focuses in on the relationship between the author and the reader. Thus they explore the complexities of the concept of authorship in the works of Thomas Hoccleve and John Lydgate (Andrew Galloway, Cornell University), William Shakespeare and Christopher Marlowe (Rory Loughnane, University of Kent), John Taylor, "the Water Poet" (Edel Semple, University College Cork), Samuel Richardson (Natasha Simonova, University of Oxford), Herman Melville (and his reluctant scrivener ‘Bartleby’) (William E. Engel, Sewanee, The University of the South), James Joyce (Brad Tuggle, University of Alabama), and Grant Morrison (Darragh Greene, University College Dublin).
An Analysis of Roland Barthes's The Death of the Author
Title | An Analysis of Roland Barthes's The Death of the Author PDF eBook |
Author | Laura Seymour |
Publisher | Taylor & Francis |
Pages | 100 |
Release | 2018-05-11 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 0429818866 |
Roland Barthes’s 1967 essay, "The Death of the Author," argues against the traditional practice of incorporating the intentions and biographical context of an author into textual interpretation because of the resultant limitations imposed on a text. Hailing "the birth of the reader," Barthes posits a new abstract notion of the reader as the conceptual space containing all the text’s possible meanings. The essay has become one of the most cited works in literary criticism and is a key text for any reader approaching reader response theory.
Birth and Death of Meaning
Title | Birth and Death of Meaning PDF eBook |
Author | Ernest Becker |
Publisher | Simon and Schuster |
Pages | 287 |
Release | 2010-05-11 |
Genre | Philosophy |
ISBN | 1439118426 |
Uses the disciplines of psychology, anthropology, sociology and psychiatry to explain what makes people act the way they do.
Image-Music-Text
Title | Image-Music-Text PDF eBook |
Author | Roland Barthes |
Publisher | Macmillan |
Pages | 236 |
Release | 1977 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 9780374521363 |
Essays on semiology
Beyond Price
Title | Beyond Price PDF eBook |
Author | J. David Velleman |
Publisher | Open Book Publishers |
Pages | 234 |
Release | 2015-10-08 |
Genre | Philosophy |
ISBN | 1783741678 |
In nine lively essays, bioethicist J. David Velleman challenges the prevailing consensus about assisted suicide and reproductive technology, articulating an original approach to the ethics of creating and ending human lives. He argues that assistance in dying is appropriate only at the point where talk of suicide is not, and he raises moral objections to anonymous donor conception. In their place, Velleman champions a morality of valuing personhood over happiness in making end-of-life decisions, and respecting the personhood of future children in making decisions about procreation. These controversial views are defended with philosophical rigor while remaining accessible to the general reader. Written over Velleman's 30 years of undergraduate teaching in bioethics, the essays have never before been collected and made available to a non-academic audience. They will open new lines of debate on issues of intense public interest.
Birth, Death, and Femininity
Title | Birth, Death, and Femininity PDF eBook |
Author | Sara Heinämaa |
Publisher | Indiana University Press |
Pages | 281 |
Release | 2010-10-25 |
Genre | Philosophy |
ISBN | 0253222370 |
Issues surrounding birth and death have been fundamental for Western philosophy as well as for individual existence. The contributors to this volume unravel the gendered aspects of the classical philosophical discourses on death, bringing in discussions about birth, creativity, and the entire chain of human activity. By linking their work to major thinkers such as Heidegger, Nietzsche, Beauvoir, and Arendt, and to major philosophical currents such as ancient philosophy, existentialism, phenomenology, and social and political philosophy, they challenge prevailing feminist articulations of birth and death. These philosophical reflections add an important sexual dimension to current thinking on identity, temporality, and community.
Michelet
Title | Michelet PDF eBook |
Author | Jules Michelet |
Publisher | Univ of California Press |
Pages | 244 |
Release | 1992-01-01 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9780520078260 |
"For students interested in historiography, Michelet is one of the earliest truly successful literary readings of an historical text. . . . For all of us who are interested in this field it is a classic."--Lionel Gossman, author of Between History and Literature