Through close readings of Barthes, Derrida, Sedgwick, and Spivak, Jane Gallop connects the theoretical death of the author to the writer s literal death, as well as other authorial deaths, such as obsolescence
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Through close readings of Barthes, Derrida, Sedgwick, and Spivak, Jane Gallop connects the theoretical death of the author to the writer s literal death, as well as other authorial deaths, such as obsolescence
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Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Part I: The Friendly Return of the Author; 1. The Author Is Dead but I Desire the Author; 2. The Ethics of Indecency; Part II: If I Were a Writer and Dead; 3. The Queer Temporality of Writing; 4. The Persistent and Vanishing Present; Notes; Works Cited; Index