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

by 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." This critique has given rise to a body of writing that confounds generic distinctions separating the literary and the theoretical. Its archive consists of texts by writers who either directly participated in this critique, as Barthes did, or whose intellectual formation took place in its immediate aftermath...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1501372181
• ISBN13: 9781501372186
• Release Date: June 2022
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.67 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"