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Authorial Death

Authorial Death is a theoretical construct in literary criticism designating the dismissal of the author's authority as the definitive source of a text's meaning, thereby foregrounding the reader's role in generating interpretive significance.

30

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784

Citations

29

Authors

13

Institutions

Publications per year

2017–2026

2

Variants

Death Of The Author

Parents

Publications

30

The Curious Death of the Novel: Essays in American Literature

Max Westbrook, Louis D. Rubin · NOVEL A Forum on Fiction · 1969 · 83 citations

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Reading death in ancient Rome

Ray Laurence · Mortality · 2009 · 77 citations

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The author is not dead, merely somewhere else: creative writing reconceived

Choice Reviews Online · 2008 · 59 citations

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Angels and absences: child deaths in the nineteenth century

Choice Reviews Online · 1997 · 57 citations

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Death of the VLE?: a challenge to a new orthodoxy

Mark Stiles · Serials The Journal for the Serials Community · 2007 · 46 citations · Full text

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Authors

29

  1. AW
    A.D. Wilson

    Government of the United Kingdom, United Kingdom

    2 publications · 67 citations

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  2. JT
    John Trimbur

    Worcester Polytechnic Institute, United States

    1 publications · 22 citations

    1

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  3. PL
    Paisley Livingston

    Lingnan University, Hong Kong SAR China

    1 publications · 16 citations

    1

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  4. MD
    Marc DaRosa

    1 publications · 20 citations

    1

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  5. CW
    Christopher Watkin

    Australian Regenerative Medicine Institute, Australia

    1 publications · 10 citations

    1

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Institutions

13

  1. McGill University

    Montreal, Canada

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    16 citations

  2. Uppsala University

    Uppsala, Sweden

    1 h-index

    2 publications

    48 citations

  3. Western Illinois University

    Macomb, United States

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    10 citations

  4. The University of Tokyo

    Tokyo, Japan

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    10 citations

  5. Folger Shakespeare Library

    Washington, United States

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    12 citations

  6. University of Edinburgh

    Edinburgh, United Kingdom

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    16 citations

  7. Karolinska Institutet

    Stockholm, Sweden

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    24 citations

  8. University of Siena

    Siena, Italy

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    31 citations

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Venues

  1. Choice Reviews Online

    CRO · 4 publications · 160 citations

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  2. The Modern Language Review

    2 publications · 67 citations

    2

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  3. Philosophy and literature

    2 publications · 26 citations

    2

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  4. Journal of advanced composition

    JAC · 1 publications · 22 citations

    1

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  5. Mortality

    1 publications · 77 citations

    1

    h-index

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