Partial Interpretations and Company: Beckett, Foucault, et al. and the Author Question
This essay examines recent debate on the status of the author in contemporary literature by means of an extended analysis of Samuel Beckett's Company . A number of critical responses to the Beckett text— Wayne Booth's reading in The Rhetoric of Fiction is taken as symptomatic—are critic...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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New Prairie Press
1993-06-01
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Series: | Studies in 20th & 21st Century Literature |
Online Access: | http://newprairiepress.org/sttcl/vol17/iss2/9 |