The death and return of the author : criticism and subjectivity in Barthes, Foucault and Derrida
Print Book, English, 1998
Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh, 1998
264 pages ; 24 cm
9780748610068, 0748610065
1012706607
Prologue: The Deaths of Paul de Man
Introduction: A Prehistory of the Death of the Author
1. The Birth of the Reader
Authorship and Apotheosis
From Work to Life
The 'Founders of Languages'
Mimesis and the Author
2. The Author and the Death of Man
Cogito and the Birth of Man
The Founder of Futurity
What (and Who) is an Author?
Allegories of Misreading
Transcendental Lures: Lacan and the Mastery of Language
3. Misread Intentions
Authors of Absence
Hors-Texte
A History of Silence
Doubling the Text: Intention and its Other
The Myth of Writing
Reading and (Self- ) Writing
Conclusion: Critic and Author