The Post-war Novel and the Death of the Author
This book not only discloses and examines different functions and concepts of authorship in fiction and theory from the 1950s and 1960s to the present but it also reveals, at least implicitly, a trajectory of some of the modes and functions
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The Post-war Novel and the Death of the Author
Arya Aryan
The Post-war Novel and the Death of the Author
Arya Aryan Institute of English Language and Literatures Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen Tübingen, Germany
ISBN 978-3-030-45053-3 ISBN 978-3-030-45054-0 (eBook) https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-45054-0 © The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020 This work is subject to copyright. All rights are solely and exclusively licensed by the Publisher, whether the whole or part of the material is concerned, specifically the rights of translation, reprinting, reuse of illustrations, recitation, broadcasting, reproduction on microfilms or in any other physical way, and transmission or information storage and retrieval, electronic adaptation, computer software, or by similar or dissimilar methodology now known or hereafter developed. The use of general descriptive names, registered names, trademarks, service marks, etc. in this publication does not imply, even in the absence of a specific statement, that such names are exempt from the relevant protective laws and regulations and therefore free for general use. The publisher, the authors and the editors are safe to assume that the advice and information in this book are believed to be true and accurate at the date of publication. Neither the publisher nor the authors or the editors give a warranty, expressed or implied, with respect to the material contained herein or for any errors or omissions that may have been made. The publisher remains neutral with regard to jurisdictional claims in published maps and institutional affiliations. Cover image: © Lebazele/Getty Images, Image ID: 172185576 This Palgrave Macmillan imprint is published by the registered company Springer Nature Switzerland AG The registered company address is: Gewerbestrasse 11, 6330 Cham, Switzerland
Foreword
When rumours of the ‘death of the author’ began to emanate from Paris in the 1960s, they found a receptive audience among a new generation of radical literary critics who were more than ready to dispense with received wisdom about the origins of literary creativity. But the death of the author was not simply a resonantly iconoclastic slogan; it also gave birth to a demanding new set of questions about what it means to read in a culture where the author has suddenly become persona non grata. Not the least of these is the question of who, or what, occupies the privileged space in literature from which the author has been summarily evicted: an impersonal web of signifiers? A power vacuum that enterprising readers can occupy and populate with their own meanings and intentions? Or a temporarily vacant throne that the author, in some form, will duly reclaim? In The Post-war Novel and the Death of the Author, Arya Aryan provides a timely and valuable reconsideration of these issues. He does so by offering an ambitious, wide-ranging, substantial and multi-faceted discussion of the question of authorship as it has represented,
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