Death in Quotations

Svetlana Boym questions the "death of the author" thesis, put forward by Roland Barthes and Michel Foucault in the 60s and gradually becoming a legend, and argues that the death of the author is just a contemporary "myth" in the sense Barthes uses. Examining how modern criticism deals with the relations between biography and literature in a field ranging from Russian Formalism to American New Criticism and French Post-structuralism, the author places Mallarmé, Valéry and Rimbaud from French poetry, and Mayakovsky and Marina Tsvetayeva from Russian poetry, at the center of his analyses. The main focus of the author's interest is the relationship between literature and life in general, the poet's life and his poetry in particular, and especially the poet's rhetorical death and his real death. We think that this "death" in literary texts will be read with pleasure by readers interested in cultural studies and philosophy, as well as by those interested in criticism.



Number of Pages: 336

Year of Printing: 2010


Language: Turkish
Publisher: Metis Publishing

First Print Year: 2010

Number of Pages: 336

Language Turkish