Authorship's Wake: Writing After the Death of the Author

by Philip Sayers and Philip Sayers

Authorship's Wake examines the aftermath of the 1960s critique of the author, epitomized by Roland Barthes's essay, "The Death of the Author." In assessing a range of responses to this critique - responses that rebuff it, that accept it, and that take it in altogether different directions - Sayers demonstrates that the death of the author has led to a convergence between contemporary literature and critical theory: it has given rise to a...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1501367676
• ISBN13: 9781501367670
• Release Date: December 2020
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 1.03 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"