The Resource The empty cage : inquiry into the mysterious disappearance of the author, Carla Benedetti ; translated from the Italian by William J. Hartley
The empty cage : inquiry into the mysterious disappearance of the author, Carla Benedetti ; translated from the Italian by William J. Hartley
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- In The Empty Cage, the highly regarded Italian literary critic Carla Benedetti explores the question: What is an author? Expanding Foucault's arguments beyond literary discourse into art, film, performance, and industrial design, Benedetti maintains that the author carries out a historical function, integrally connected to the modern system of artistic production and of aesthetic evaluation. In the modern period, she says, any object can be considered a work of art, on the supposition that it has been produced by an author. Her book, far from being an attempt to reclaim authorial intention as essential, proposes an original theory that shows how the author, in the form of author-images and even logos, has become an important link in the modern system of artistic communication
- Discussing authors who include Borges, John Cage, Calvino, Duchamp, Proust, and Cindy Sherman, Benedetti addresses the principal aesthetic problems of modernity, showing how late modernity approached and refashioned them. She suggests that the author has become metaphorically a diagnostic expression of all of modernity's maladies, that part of a sick organism into which all symptoms of the illness converge. Thus she sees the author's death (and with it postmodernity as a whole) as a great "work of mourning" produced by a tired Western modernity; a mourning for what it no longer believes to be possible: that is, to grow and to generate. --Publisher's description
- Language
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- eng
- ita
- eng
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- The empty cage : inquiry into the mysterious disappearance of the author
- Title
- The empty cage
- Title remainder
- inquiry into the mysterious disappearance of the author
- Statement of responsibility
- Carla Benedetti ; translated from the Italian by William J. Hartley
- Language
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- eng
- ita
- eng
- Summary
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- In The Empty Cage, the highly regarded Italian literary critic Carla Benedetti explores the question: What is an author? Expanding Foucault's arguments beyond literary discourse into art, film, performance, and industrial design, Benedetti maintains that the author carries out a historical function, integrally connected to the modern system of artistic production and of aesthetic evaluation. In the modern period, she says, any object can be considered a work of art, on the supposition that it has been produced by an author. Her book, far from being an attempt to reclaim authorial intention as essential, proposes an original theory that shows how the author, in the form of author-images and even logos, has become an important link in the modern system of artistic communication
- Discussing authors who include Borges, John Cage, Calvino, Duchamp, Proust, and Cindy Sherman, Benedetti addresses the principal aesthetic problems of modernity, showing how late modernity approached and refashioned them. She suggests that the author has become metaphorically a diagnostic expression of all of modernity's maladies, that part of a sick organism into which all symptoms of the illness converge. Thus she sees the author's death (and with it postmodernity as a whole) as a great "work of mourning" produced by a tired Western modernity; a mourning for what it no longer believes to be possible: that is, to grow and to generate. --Publisher's description
- Cataloging source
- DLC
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorDate
- 1952-
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Benedetti, Carla
- Dewey number
- 801
- Illustrations
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- illustrations
- plates
- Index
- index present
- LC call number
- PN175
- LC item number
- .B4613 2005
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
- bibliography
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- Auteurschap
- Letterkunde
- Littérature
- Sémiotique et littérature
- Autorschaft
- Literaturwissenschaft
- Philosophie
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- The empty cage : inquiry into the mysterious disappearance of the author, Carla Benedetti ; translated from the Italian by William J. Hartley
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [213]-222) and index
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- volume
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- rdacarrier
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- txt
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- Control code
- 56982861
- Dimensions
- 24 cm
- Extent
- xi, 232 pages
- Isbn
- 9780801441455
- Isbn Type
- (alk. paper)
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- 2004023904
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- unmediated
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- illustrations
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- (OCoLC)56982861
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- The empty cage : inquiry into the mysterious disappearance of the author, Carla Benedetti ; translated from the Italian by William J. Hartley
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [213]-222) and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
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- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
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- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Control code
- 56982861
- Dimensions
- 24 cm
- Extent
- xi, 232 pages
- Isbn
- 9780801441455
- Isbn Type
- (alk. paper)
- Lccn
- 2004023904
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
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- n
- Other physical details
- illustrations
- System control number
- (OCoLC)56982861
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