Beschreibung:
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.
Acknowledgments viiIntroduction 1Part I. The Friendly Return of the Author 271. The Author Is Dead but I Desire the Author 292. The Ethics of Indecency 55Part II. If I Were a Writer and Dead 853. The Queer Temporality of Writing 874. The Persistent and Vanishing Present 115Notes 145Works Cited 163Index 167