This reader provides a solid theoretical base for all those encountering the 'author' debate for the first time. It presents key readings from the main writers on authorship, including pieces from Plato, Descartes, Shelley, Freud, T. S. Eliot, Sartre, Derrida, Foucault and Borges, and puts the authorship debates into historical context.
The aesthetic and textual debate: changing conceptions of authorship; the 20th-century controversy. The politics of authorship: feminism and the authorial subject; ideologies of authorship. Self and text.
