Includes bibliographical references (p. [217]-227) and index.

Machine generated contents note: Part One: The Death of the Author? 1 -- 1. The Death of the Author 3 -- Roland Barthes -- 2. What Is an Au thor? 9 -- Michel Foucault -- 3. Kierkegaard and the Anxiety of Authors hip 23 -- Merold Westphal -- 4. Gadamer's Hermeneutics and the Question of Authorial Intention 45 -- David Weberman -- 5. The Marginal Life of the Author 65 -- Jason Holt -- 6. The Death of the Author: An Analytic al Autopsy 79 -- Peter Lamarque --Part Two: The Resurrection of the Aut hor? A Look at Author Constructs 93 -- 7. Writer, Text, Work, Author 95 -- Alexander Nehamas -- 8. Authorship and Authority 117 -- Nickolas Pa ppas -- 9. Apparent, Implied, and Postulated Authors 129 -- Robert Stec ker -- 10. Feminist Literary Criticism and the Author 141 -- Cheryl Wal ker -- 11. A Theory of the Author 161 -- Jorge J.E. Gracia -- 12. Inten tionalism and Author Constructs 191 -- William Irwin -- 13. The Death o f Cervantes and the Life of Don Quixote 205 -- Eric Bronson.