Author

Publication

1994-12-01 - Palgrave Macmillan

Language

English

Word Count

42,500 words, Guess

Page Count

170 pages

Physical Format

Hardcover

Identifiers

and 2 more
  • Library of Congress Control Number94009973
  • Goodreads4793387

Classifications

  • LCCPR6011.O58 Z74 1995
  • DDC823/.912

Description

This series offers stimulating accounts of the literary careers of the most admired and influential English-language authors. Volumes follow the outline of writers' working lives, not in the spirit of traditional biography, but aiming to trace the professional, publishing and social contexts which shaped their writing. The role and status of 'the author' as the creator of literary texts is a vexed issue in current critical theory, where a variety of social, linguistic and psychological approaches have challenged the old concentration on writers as specially gifted individuals. Yet reports of 'the death of the author' in literary studies are (as Mark Twain said of a premature obituary) an exaggeration. This series aims to demonstrate how an understanding of writers' careers can promote, for students and general readers alike, a more informed historical reading of their works.

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Other Editions

  • E.M. Forster: A Literary Life (Literary Lives)HardcoverPalgrave Macmillan1994-12-01

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