The Deaths of the Author: Reading and Writing in Time

✍ Scribed by Jane Gallop

Publisher: Duke University Press
Year: 2011
Tongue: English
Leaves: 176
Category: Library

No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.

✦ Synopsis

Through close readings of Barthes, Derrida, Sedgwick, and Spivak, Jane Gallop connects the theoretical death of the author to the writers literal death, as well as other authorial deaths, such as obsolescence.

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