Have the reports of the author's death been greatly exaggerated? This volume is a dialogical collection of key essays discussing the nature of authorship and the place, if any, of authorial intention in the interpretation of literary texts.

Preface Introduction The Death of the Author The Death of the Author by Roland Barthes What Is an Author? by Michel Foucault Kierkegaard and the Anxiety of Authorship by Merold Westphal Gadamer's Hermeneutics and the Question of Authorial Intention by David Weberman The Marginal Life of the Author by Jason Holt The Death of the Author: An Analytical Autopsy by Peter Lamarque The Resurrection of the Author? A Look at Author Constructs Writer, Text, Work, Author by Alexander Nehamas Authorship and Authority by Nickolas Pappas Apparent, Implied, and Postulated Authors by Robert Stecker Feminist Literary Criticism and the Author by Cheryl Walker A Theory of the Author by Jorge J.E. Gracia Intentionalism and Author Constructs by William Irwin The Death of Cervantes and the Life of Don Quixote by Eric Bronson Bibliography Index