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ISBN: | 9780804780681 0804780684 9780804773225 080477322X 0804773238 9780804773232
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Notes: | Includes bibliographical references and index. Print version record.
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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.
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Other form: | Print version: Widiss, Benjamin Leigh. Obscure invitations. Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, [2011], ©2011 9780804773225
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