Return of the author

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The thesis of the return of the author emerged in literary studies in the 1990s . It brings the author's person back into focus. In doing so, she reacts to the death of the author, postulated in literary theory at the end of the 1960s .

The debate about the author's return is accompanied by research into his anthropological justification and justification. In American literary theory, the preoccupation with the author has been advanced since the 1980s by Martha Woodmansee , who deals with the author, his genealogy and his relationship to discourses of property. As early as 1992, the French book and reading researcher Roger Chartier launched a general attack on Michel Foucault's text What is an author? By a return ( retour spoke of the author) and thus took up the word that Foucault had only reserved for Diskursivitätsbegründer. Chartier thus assigned each author the role of the founder of discursiveness and thus placed the author at the center of literary reception. He named three thresholds through which the author penetrated the consciousness of the researchers again: as a legal title in relation to research on copyright , as a personal authority before censorship, and as a name for the unity of a text corpus. In German research, the term came up again through an anthology of the same name published in 1999 by Fotis Jannidis , Gerhard Lauer , Matías Martínez and Simone Winko . In it, the author should once again be made a legitimate object of investigation in literary studies, solely to avoid the "unenlightened schizophrenia" between literary theory and practice of literary studies.

Important references

  • Fotis Jannidis, Gerhard Lauer, Matías Martínez and Simone Winko (eds.): The return of the author . Niemeyer, Tübingen 1999.

Remarks

  1. ^ Adrian Wilson: Foucault on the "Question of the Author": A Critical Exegesis . In: The Modern Language Review , Volume 99, No. 2, April 2004, p. 339.
  2. ↑ Klaus Städtke , Ralph Kray, Ingo Berensmeyer: Playrooms of the authorial discourse , Akademie Verlag, Berlin 2003, ISBN 3-05-003737-7 .
  3. ↑ Thomas Homscheid: Intercontextuality: a contribution to the literary theory of the neo-modern . Königshausen & Neumann, 2007, ISBN 3-8260-3771-5 , p. 19.
  4. ↑ Klaus Städtke, Ralph Kray, Ingo Berensmeyer: Playrooms of the authorial discourse , Akademie Verlag, Berlin 2003, ISBN 3-05-003737-7 .
  5. ^ Gregor Thuswaldner: Derrida and after? Literary theoretical discourses of the present . DUV, 2008, ISBN 3-8350-6036-8 , p. 21.
  6. ^ Daniela Langer: How one becomes what one writes: language, subject and autobiography with Nietzsche and Barthes . Wilhelm Fink Verlag, 2005, ISBN 3-7705-4111-1 , p. 35.