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Language: English
Published by Southern Illinois Univ Pr, Carbondale, Illinois, U.S.A., 1988
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- Title
- Who Says This: The Authority of the Author, the Discourse, and the Reader
- Author
- Everman, Welch D.
- Publisher
- Southern Illinois Univ Pr, Carbondale, Illinois, U.S.A.
- Publication year
- 1988
- Condition
- Near Fine
- Dust jacket
- Near Fine
- Binding
- Hard Cover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0809314444
- ISBN 13
- 9780809314447
- Seller catalogs
- Literature, Poetry, & Criticism
"Who or what gives the text its authority?" Everman offers three main sources of authority: the author, the discourse, and the reader.
His first section examines the authority of the author by studying the works of contemporary American writers. An essay on "docufiction" focuses on the paradox of using the techniques of fiction to discover reality. The probability of writers revealing truths about themselves is exemplified by Raymond Federmans quasi-autobiographical novels.
The second part discusses the authority of discourse, challenging writers with the possibility that literary form, not the author, is the major force in creating works. The final section explores the authority of the reader.
Italo Calvinos If on a winters night a traveler makes the reader the main character of the novel and implicates him in its creation.
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About the Author
Welch D. Everman teaches in the Department of English at the University of Maine at Orono.
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