The question is, therefore, how can
literary criticism
maintain its Arnoldian function of identifying the best which
has been
thought and said, when literary discourse itself has been
decentered by deconstructing
the traditional concept of the author, of “authority”?
Rodney
Wainwright’s paralyzing question in Lodge’s Small
World (1984)
Ann Klages’s summary of Foucault’s “What Is an Author?”
Paul Bové
on discourse in Foucault’s “What Is an Author?”
“Author” from the Bedford
Glossary
Alternate
ending/translation to “What Is an Author?”