Death and Resurrection of the Author?

Have the reports of the author's death been greatly exaggerated? When Roland Barthes famously announced the death of the author, he heralded a major new debate in modern literary criticism and aesthetics. This volume is a dialogical collection of key essays discussing the nature of authorship and the place, if any, of authorial intention in the interpretation of literary texts. Including seminal essays by Barthes and Foucault, along with other previously published and newly commissioned contributions, this collection examines the philosophical underpinnings and arguments of both sides of the debate.

Preface
Introduction
The Death of the Author
The Death of the Author by Roland Barthes
What Is an Author? by Michel Foucault
Kierkegaard and the Anxiety of Authorship by Merold Westphal
Gadamer's Hermeneutics and the Question of Authorial Intention by David Weberman
The Marginal Life of the Author by Jason Holt
The Death of the Author: An Analytical Autopsy by Peter Lamarque
The Resurrection of the Author? A Look at Author Constructs
Writer, Text, Work, Author by Alexander Nehamas
Authorship and Authority by Nickolas Pappas
Apparent, Implied, and Postulated Authors by Robert Stecker
Feminist Literary Criticism and the Author by Cheryl Walker
A Theory of the Author by Jorge J. E. Gracia
Intentionalism and Author Constructs by William Irwin
The Death of Cervantes and the Life of Don Quixote by Eric Bronson
Bibliography
Index