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The empty cage : inquiry into the mysterious disappearance of the author

Title
The empty cage : inquiry into the mysterious disappearance of the author / Carla Benedetti ; translated from the Italian by William J. Hartley.
Author
Benedetti, Carla, 1952-
Publication
Ithaca : Cornell University Press, [2005], ©2005.

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xi, 232 pages : illustrations; 24 cm
Summary
"In The Empty Cage, the highly regarded Italian literary critic Carla Benedetti explores the question: What is an author? Expanding Foucault's arguments beyond literary discourse into art, film, performance and industrial design, Benedetti maintains that the author carries out a historical function, integrally connected to the modern system of artistic production and of esthetic evaluation. In the modern period, she says, any object can be considered a work of art, on the supposition that it has been produced by an author. Her book, far from being an attempt to reclaim authorial intention as essential, proposes an original theory that shows how the author, in the form of author-images and even logos, has become an important link in the modern system of artistic communication." "Discussing authors who include Borges, John Cage, Calvino, Duchamp, Proust, and Cindy Sherman, Benedetti addresses the principle aesthetic problems of modernity, showing how late modernity approached and refashioned them."--BOOK JACKET.
Uniform Title
Ombra lunga dell'autore. English
Alternative Title
Ombra lunga dell'autore.
Subject
  • Authorship > Philosophy
  • Auteurschap
  • Letterkunde
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. [213]-222) and index.
Contents
1. Is the author dead? -- 2. The author without genius -- 3. The author as condition of the work -- 4. From genres to authors -- 5. The differential logic of modernity -- 6. "This is literature!" -- 7. Malaise and its remedies -- 8. Endless mourning.
ISBN
  • 0801441455 (alk. paper)
  • 9780801441455 (alk. paper)
LCCN
  • 2004023904
  • 99821221818
OCLC
  • 56982861
  • ocm56982861\
  • SCSB-5423294
Owning Institutions
Columbia University Libraries