Seán Burke (literary theorist)

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Seán Burke is an Irish literary theorist and novelist. He is a Reader in English at Durham University. The emphasis of his work in literary theory is opposition to postmodern decentering of the author. His response to Barthes' "Death of the Author" is titled Death and Return of the Author. He instead asserts authorial intent, even considering the issue of whether authors are personally responsible for unintended readings of their texts.

Published works

Burke, Seán (1995). Authorship: from Plato to The Postmodern: A Reader, Edinburgh University Press. ISBN 978-0748606184

Burke, Seán (2002). Deadwater, Serpent's Tail. ISBN 978-1852426934

Burke, Seán (2010). The Death and Return of the Author: Criticism and Subjectivity in Barthes, Foucault, and Derrida, Edinburgh University Press. ISBN 978-0748637119

Burke, Seán (2011). The Ethics of Writing: Authorship and Responsibility in Plato and Nietzsche, Edinburgh University Press. ISBN 978-0748641796

References

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