By Stephen Dr Donovan, Danuta Fjellestad, Rolf Lundn
During this huge ranging choice of essays, 11 literary students and artistic writers learn authorship and authority on the subject of the creation and reception of cultural texts. Ranging in time from the Renaissance to the period of electronic publishing, the essays invite us to reassess the influential theories of Roland Barthes, Michel Foucault, and Pierre Bourdieu for our realizing of writers corresponding to Philip Sydney, Thomas Hardy, Laura driving, W.B. Yeats, Gertrude Stein, and J.M. Coetzee. laying off new mild on authority’s complicated position within the new release of cultural which means, the essays can be of curiosity to scholars and academics of literary heritage and demanding conception alike.
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At the start of the following week’s lecture at the Collège in early 1976, Foucault summed up his previous one by saying that the course of study he’d been following since 1970-1971 had “been concerned with the how of power”. 8 Power indeed became the great shibboleth of Foucault’s work from the 1970s forward, and the first major book to emerge from this period of his work, Discipline and Punish (Surveiller et Punir, 1975), was a serious illustration of the new approach in action, a meditation on the emergence of the discursive regime of the penitentiary with its effects of power everywhere inscribed.
For a fuller discussion of Milton’s contract and the distribution of complimentary copies, see Dobranski, Milton, Authorship, and the Book Trade, 23, 35-36, and 78. 34 The Birth of the Author 33 printers and booksellers probably paid authors only when it suited their own interests. In the case of Richard Hooker’s book, despite the author’s labour and the publisher’s investment, the printer John Windet owned Ecclesiastical Politie because it was entered in the Stationers’ Register as his copy. After Windet’s death in the early 1600s, the right to publish the book passed on to his apprentice William Stansby rather than Hooker’s daughters.
Sidney’s Arcadia more fully illustrates this tension between the author’s emerging status and the collaborative practices of early modern writing and publishing. 79 The work that more than any other helped to cement Sidney’s posthumous reputation, Arcadia became a 70 Philip Sidney, An Apologie for Poetrie, London, 1595, sig. C1v. , sig. L3r. , sig. I4r. 73 Philip Sidney, The Countess of Pembroke’s Arcadia, London, 1655, sig. Alv. , sig. A3. , sig. A4r-c1r. , sig. c1v. , sig. c2r-d4r. 78 Ibid. sig.