Obscure Invitations

Name: Obscure Invitations
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The Persistence of the Author in Twentieth-century American Literature

Autor: Benjamin Widiss

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Literary studies in the postwar era have consistently barred attributing specific intentions to auth...

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Autor

Benjamin Widiss

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engleză

Legare

Carte - Copertă tare

Publicat

2011

Pagini

220

EAN

9780804773225

ISBN

080477322X

Enbook ID

04719013

Editura

Stanford University Press

Greutate

454

Dimensiuni

152 x 229 x 20

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Literary studies in the postwar era have consistently barred attributing specific intentions to authors based on textual evidence or ascribing textual presences to the authors themselves. "Obscure Invitations" argues that this taboo has blinded us to fundamental elements of twentieth-century literature. Widiss focuses on the particularly self-conscious constructions of authorship that characterize modernist and postmodernist writing, elaborating the narrative strategies they demand and the reading practices they yield. He reveals that apparent manifestations of "the death of the author" and of the "free play" of language are performances that ultimately affirm authorial control of text and reader. The book significantly revises received understandings of central texts by Faulkner, Stein, and Nabokov. It then discusses Eggers' "Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius" and the films "Seven" and "The Usual Suspects," demonstrating that each is a highly self-aware rebuttal of the notion of authorial absence.

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