Authorship as Alchemy: Subversive Writing in Pushkin, Scott, and Hoffmann

This book is an attempt to answer Michel Foucault's question, 'What is an author?' It examines the relationship between personal identity, the physical person of the writer, and the 'author' projected as a matter of public perception via the reception of written texts. It approaches this problem by analyzing the way Romantic writers play upon and subvert the 'author' position projected upon them in the public reception of their texts, and it sheds light on the use of anonyms and pseudonyms as strategies that subvert the emerging institution of authorship.

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Authorship as Alchemy: Subversive Writing in Pushkin, Scott, and Hoffmann

This book is an attempt to answer Michel Foucault's question, 'What is an author?' It examines the relationship between personal identity, the physical person of the writer, and the 'author' projected as a matter of public perception via the reception of written texts. It approaches this problem by analyzing the way Romantic writers play upon and subvert the 'author' position projected upon them in the public reception of their texts, and it sheds light on the use of anonyms and pseudonyms as strategies that subvert the emerging institution of authorship.

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Authorship as Alchemy: Subversive Writing in Pushkin, Scott, and Hoffmann

Authorship as Alchemy: Subversive Writing in Pushkin, Scott, and Hoffmann

by David Glenn Kropf
Authorship as Alchemy: Subversive Writing in Pushkin, Scott, and Hoffmann

Authorship as Alchemy: Subversive Writing in Pushkin, Scott, and Hoffmann

by David Glenn Kropf

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This book is an attempt to answer Michel Foucault's question, 'What is an author?' It examines the relationship between personal identity, the physical person of the writer, and the 'author' projected as a matter of public perception via the reception of written texts. It approaches this problem by analyzing the way Romantic writers play upon and subvert the 'author' position projected upon them in the public reception of their texts, and it sheds light on the use of anonyms and pseudonyms as strategies that subvert the emerging institution of authorship.


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ISBN-13: 9780804765305
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Publication date: 11/01/1994
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 288
File size: 940 KB
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