The Deaths of the Author: Reading and Writing in Time

by Jane Gallop

For thirty years the "death of the author" has been a familiar poststructuralist slogan in literary theory, widely understood and much debated as a dismissal of the author, a declaration of the writer's irrelevance to the readers experience. In this concise book, Jane Gallop revitalizes this hackneyed concept by considering not only the abstract theoretical death of the author but also the writer's literal death, as well as other authorial "deaths"...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0822350815
• ISBN13: 9780822350811
• Release Date: August 2011
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Length: 184 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.2" x 8.7"