The author['s] remains: Foucault and the demise of the "author-function"

Philosophy Today;  July 1, 2002 ;   Hendricks, Christina;   787 words ...FOUCAULT AND THE DEMISE OF THE "AUTHOR-FUNCTION" In "What is an Author," Michel Foucault quotes Samuel Beckett: "What matter...expressed, when this indifference signals the death of the author? Why not attempt to preserve the potential anonymity...

...and an artist is an artist is an artist. (response to the article 'An...

American Theatre;  September 1, 1998 ;   Thomson, Lynn M.;   787 words ...I agree with the headline of the article signed by certain members of New Dramatists ( An Author Is an Author Is an Author, July/Aug. '98). But remember, in the Copyright Act only one word - author - is used for anyone who creates...

AUTHOR APPEARANCES.(SHOWCASE)

Wisconsin State Journal (Madison, WI);  October 6, 2002 ;     599 words ......basis.) Wednesday * A. Manette Ansay, author of Limbo, Middleton Public Library, 7425...Middleton, 7 p.m. * Chris Carlsson, author of Defiant Celebration, a book about his...W. Gilman St., 7 p.m. * Edmund Morris, author of Theodore Rex, Canterbury Booksellers...

Roman mysteries and furry bananas

Plymouth Evening Herald, The;  July 23, 2008 ;     268 words ......Flying out to nice locations, especially if they are hot and have good food. I went out to Malta last year to film the Roman Mysteries for the BBC. BUT THE WORST THING IS... Not knowing what is coming next and doing funny jobs like being dressed up as a furry...

Leading Authors Headline Events As Annual Book Convention Returns to New...

PR Newswire;  February 9, 2005 ;     787 words ......known and widely attended events program, which features the celebrated Author Breakfasts and Luncheon. Through the years, BEA's Author Events have afforded many authors the opportunity to humor, educate and otherwise engage a captive audience...

(Im)plying the Author.(Critical Essay)

Narrative;  May 1, 2001 ;   Lanser, Susan S.;   787 words ......Wayne Booth's coinage in the 1960s, the implied author has been attacked, defended, deconstructed...we have asked whether there is an implied author separate from a real one (or whether author already suffices to describe the entity readers...

Dave Barry headlines author banquet

The Gazette;  September 19, 1999 ;   Linda DuVal; The Gazette;   257 words ......Plains Booksellers Association annual author banquet promises to be a stellar event...popular newspaper humor columnist and author of several books, will be the master of...banquet are: Jim Whittaker, adventurer and author of "A Life on the Edge: Memoirs of Everest...

The Author's Due: Printing and the Prehistory of Copyright.(Reviews of...

Albion;  January 1, 2004 ;   Clegg, Cyndia Susan;   787 words ...Joseph Lowenstein. The Author's Due: Printing and the Prehistory of...349. $45.00. ISBN 0-226-49040-8. The Author's Due explores the means by which the...his material copy yields way to the author's proprietary in the intellectual life...

Love,Lust,Lies: The Archer Trial; Author's Libel Suit Is the Talk of...

The Washington Post;  July 23, 1987 ;   Karen DeYoung;   787 words ......believe this story: A multimillionaire author, also a senior figure in Britain's governing...stories about her relationship with the author and that she is being harassed by smut-seeki...newspapers intent on publicizing it. The author voices surprise and protests that he has...

Picture this writer: The right author photo helps readers judge a book by...

Chicago Tribune (Chicago, IL);  January 18, 2006 ;   Reardon, Patrick T.;   787 words ......particularly insightful book, will turn to the author's photo, trying to plumb its mysteries...You're really in that person's brain. As an author, Larbalestier is ambivalent about dust-jack...trying to reconcile the smug picture of the author with the elegance of the text. The evocativeness...

Using author studies in children's literature to explore social justice...

The Social Studies;  November 1, 2006 ;   Fox, Kathy R.;   787 words ...ABSTRACT. An author-study approach to children's literature...text analysis. When students analyze an author's biography, interviews, and collection...personal expression. In this article, the author presents a week-to-week plan for analyzing...

Want to be a famous writer? Just click on `I am the author'

The Independent - London;  August 2, 2000 ;   Charles Arthur;   283 words ...WANT TO be a famous author? At Amazon, the online bookstore, nothing...All you have to do is find a suitable author's book, go to its "reviews" section, and click on the link saying "I am the Author and I want to comment on my book." Fill...

The benefits of an author-oriented approach to Hermeneutics

Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society;  September 1, 2001 ;   Stein, Robert H;   787 words ......not possible. These components are: the author, the text, and the reader. Linguists...century the general assumption was that the author was the determiner of a text's meaning. The text meant what the author of the text consciously willed to convey...

Book reviews: Author, Author: Better late than never to gain a place in...

Scotland on Sunday;  August 22, 2004 ;   ANDREW CRUMEY;   473 words ...Author, Author David Lodge Secker & Warburg, GBP 16.99 IN AN afterword to Author, Author, his novel about the American writer Henry James, David Lodge explains that after writing the first 20,000 words he read a newspaper review of Emma Tennant's...

Negotiating voices: biography and the curious triangle between subject,...

The Oral History Review;  June 22, 2005 ;   Gershenowitz, Deborah A.;   787 words ...Abstract The author edited Sandy Polishuk's Sticking to the...interviews; the editor needs to work with the author to convince readers--many of whom may...influence history, but that it is history. The author, when editing these two manuscripts, had...