Obscure invitations the persistence of the author in twentieth-century American literature

Summary: Literary studies in the postwar era have consistently barred attributing specific intentions to authors based on textual evidence or ascribing textual presences to the authors themselves. Obscure Invitations argues that this taboo has blinded us to fundamental elements of twentieth-century literature. Widiss focuses on the particularly self-conscious constructions of authorship that characterize modernist and postmodernist writing, elaborating the narrative strategies they demand and the reading practices they yield. He reveals that apparent manifestations of "the death of the author" and of t.

Record details

ISBN: 9780804780681 (electronic bk.)
ISBN: 0804780684 (electronic bk.)
ISBN: 9780804773225 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN: 080477322X (cloth : alk. paper)
Physical Description: remote
1 online resource (208 p.)
electronic resource
Publisher: Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, 2011.

Content descriptions

General Note:	Multi-User.
Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note:	Fit and surfeit : As I lay dying (seesawing) -- You know me, Alice : The autobiography of Alice B. Toklas (driving) -- See monkey, do monkey : Lolita (aping) -- The gospel according to Dave : A heartbreaking work of staggering genius (imbibing) -- The death of Kevin Spacey : Seven and The usual suspects (envisioning).
Source of Description Note:	Description based on print version record.