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Author_Aref Nayed
Author_Jeff Mitscherling
Author_Tanya DiTommaso
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Product details
- ISBN 9780739108949
- Weight: 358g
- Dimensions: 163 x 235mm
- Publication Date: 03 Nov 2004
- Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
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At the end of the twentieth century literary theorists find themselves reflecting on their discipline. Since at least 1969, the humanities and social sciences have seen the rise of Marxist critical theory, Foucault (or discourse and the new historicism), various schools of American and European cultural studies, deconstruction, and poststructuralism. One of the major coups of the last 30 years, from which all of the previously mentioned theoretical camps benefited, was the attack on and subsequent death of authorial intentionality. In, The Author's Intention co-authors DiTommaso, Mitscherling, and Nayed divert the current philosophical misrepresentation of authorial intention. Implicitly challenging a second-generation theoretical approach to literature that dismisses the possibility of truth, coherent narratives, and, of course, intentionality the authors breathe new life back into "the author" and, also, literary theory. This book is essential reading for anyone in the humanities who has an interest in critical thought, hermeneutics, and all forms of interpretive technique.
Jeff Mitscherling is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Guelph. Tanya DiTommaso teaches Philosophy at the University of Ottawa. Aref Nayed earned his Ph.D. in Philosophy from the Univeristy of Guelph.
