“Gallop’s close readings in and around queer lives, the 'fragments' that the 'dead-but-still-going' author leaves behind, elegantly invite us into the traces, ghostings and shadows that viscerally render the imbrication between the theoretical and the personal - a dynamic often disregarded in many academic circles. Gallop’s impressive close reading breathes new life into these dead authors and fittingly pays tribute to the man who killed the author and liberated the reader by practicing what he preached at a level of insight and clarity on par with Barthes himself.” - Chase Dimock, Lambda Literary Review “Gallop meticulously yet gracefully analyzes the complicated relationship between a devoted reader and the author that inspires them. Highly recommended for students of literature and literary theory.” - Emily Manuel, Global Comment “Gallop has provided us with a profound look at what it means to read and write in the face of human mortality. As a whole, this study is a valuable showcase for the practice of close reading.” - Kathrin Yacavone, Modern Language Review The clear structure and progression of argument goes in tandem with a remarkably clear, jargon-free expression, which will no doubt extend the book’s readership beyond the expert audience. “Gallop’s discussion of her four chosen authors-Barthes, Derrida, Sedgwick, and Spivak-comes together in a persuasively connected fashion. “Gallop turns the poststructuralist move of decentering the author to fresh account here, going beyond the necessary evacuation of subjective privilege to a moving engagement with the afterlife of the author as a haunting presence whose shadow still fills us with desire.” - Patrick Pritchett, Writing the Messianic blog Gallop can be highly perceptive when focusing closely on texts, in these readings of Barthes, Derrida (especially The Work of Mourning), Sedgwick, and Spivak.” - Steven Poole, The Guardian By connecting an author's theoretical, literal, and metaphoric deaths, she enables us to take a fuller measure of the moving and unsettling effects of the deaths of the author on readers and writers, and on reading and writing. Gallop does not just approach the death of the author from the reader's perspective she also reflects at length on how impending death haunts the writer. Through bravura close readings of the influential literary theorists Roland Barthes, Jacques Derrida, Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, and Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, she shows that the death of the author is best understood as a relation to temporality, not only for the reader but especially for the writer. In this concise book, Jane Gallop revitalizes this hackneyed concept by considering not only the abstract theoretical death of the author but also the writer's literal death, as well as other authorial "deaths" such as obsolescence. Labor and Working-Class History Associationįor thirty years the "death of the author" has been a familiar poststructuralist slogan in literary theory, widely understood and much debated as a dismissal of the author, a declaration of the writer's irrelevance to the readers experience.Association for Middle East Women's Studies.Author Resources from University Presses. Journals fulfilled by DUP Journal Services.
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