The Post-war Novel and the Death of the Author （2020）

Aryan, Arya

Springer Nature Switzerland AG（2020/08発売）

• 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版／ページ数 240 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9783030450533
• DDC分類 809.304

Full Description

This book not only discloses and examines different functions and concepts of authorship in fiction and theory from the 1950s and 1960s to the present but it also reveals, at least implicitly, a trajectory of some of the modes and functions of the novel as a genre in the last few decades. It argues that the explicit terms of much of the theoretical and philosophical debate surrounding the concept of authorship in the moment of High Theory in the 1980s had already been engaged, albeit often more implicitly, in literary fictions by writers themselves. This book examines the fortunes of the authorship debate and the conceptualisations and functions of authorship before, during, and after the Death of the Author came to prominence as one of the key foci for the moment of High Theory in the 1980s.

Contents

1. The Rise and Pathology of the Death of the Author as a Critical Debate.- 2. Women Writers, from Madness to Agency.- 3. Postmodernist Fiction, Madness and Agency.- 4. The Novel in the Age of Risk Society.- 5. Conclusion.