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Book Chapter: That Obscure Object Of Desire: A Science Of Language, Tony Crowley
Book Chapter: That Obscure Object Of Desire: A Science Of Language, Tony Crowley
Scripps Faculty Publications and Research
The task will be to bring to light the repressions necessary to sustain the new science of language and its newly found object and to examine its alleged scientific neutrality.
Feminist Literary Criticism And The Author, Cheryl Walker
Feminist Literary Criticism And The Author, Cheryl Walker
Scripps Faculty Publications and Research
In the course of this essay I wish to reopen the (never fully closed) question of whether it is advisable to speak of the author, or of what Foucault calls "the author function," when querying a text, and I wish to reopen it precisely at the site where feminist criticism and post-structuralism are presently engaged in dialogue. Here in particular we might expect that reasons for rejecting author erasure would appear. However, theoretically informed feminist critics have recently found themselves tempted to agree with Barthes, Foucault, and the Edward Said of Beginnings that the authorial presence is best set aside …