The Death and Return of the Author
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The Death and Return of the Author by Sean Burke
In this now classic study, Sean Burke further explores the challenges faced by an authorial theory and revisits the enigmatic borderlines between life and work, life and (authorial) death.
Thanks largely to Burke, 'Author Studies' is now legitimate in literary academia..truly brilliant. Writing in Education Thanks largely to Burke, 'Author Studies' is now legitimate in literary academia...truly brilliant.
Seán Burke worked in the Department of English Studies at the University of Durham for thirteen years, and has now retired. His academic publications include The Death and Return of the Author: Criticism and Subjectivity in Barthes, Foucault and Derrida (3rd edn, 2008), Authorship: From Plato to the Postmodern: A Reader (1995) and The Ethics of Writing: Authorship and Legacy in Plato and Nietzsche (2008). His first novel, Deadwater (2002) has been published in France as Au bout des docks (2007). He is currently researching a study of discursive ethics in Plato, Levinas and Derrida.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780748637119 |
| ISBN 10 | 0748637117 |
| Title | The Death and Return of the Author |
| Author | Sean Burke |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Edinburgh University Press |
| Year published | 2008-10-24 |
| Number of pages | 312 |
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