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• Title:
  Perspectives on Authorship and Authority
• Creator:
  Lorek-Jezińska, Edyta;
  Strehlau, Nelly;
  Więckowska, Katarzyna
• Contributor:
  Lorek-Jezińska, Edyta - Nicolaus Copernicus University, Poland;
  Strehlau, Nelly - Nicolaus Copernicus University, Poland;
  Więckowska, Katarzyna - Nicolaus Copernicus University, Poland;
  Lorek-Jezińska, Edyta - lorek@umk.pl;
  Strehlau, Nelly - strehlau@umk.pl;
  Więckowska, Katarzyna - klew@umk.pl
• Description:
  This article outlines selected shifts in thinking about authorship and authority that have occurred in literary and cultural studies in the aftermath of Roland Barthes’s proclamation of the death of the author, followed by the author’s many revivals. Reconsidering Barthes’s seminal essay and confronting it with Michel Foucault’s query about the author-function, the article comments on Seán Burke’s polemical stance concerning situated authorship. Against these general considerations, several areas in which authorship and authority have been reconceptualized are briefly discussed, referring to the themes addressed in this volume. These areas embrace the problems of representing and using somebody else’s story in visual arts and testimonial theatre, the challenges of individual and cultural situatedness of writing within one’s own output and in reference to more general cultural hauntings as well as the processes of self-formation in the interactions between a variety of texts forming life-writing.
• Object availability:
  free access
• Rights: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0
• Date:
  2021.07.29;
  2020.12.30
• Type:
  Article
• Language:
  English
• Format:
  application/pdf
• Publisher:
  Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego
• Relation:
  Analyses/Rereadings/Theories: A Journal Devoted to Literature, Film and Theatre;1;
  6
• Subject:
  authorship;
  authority;
  death of the author;
  responsibility;
  testimony;
  life-writing
• Identifier:
  2353-6098;
  http://hdl.handle.net/11089/38319 ;
  10.18778/2353-6098.6.01
• Data provider:
  Repozytorium Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego
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