{"product_id":"obscure-invitations-the-persistence-of-the-author-in-twentieth-century-american-literature-paperback","title":"Obscure Invitations: The Persistence of the Author in Twentieth-Century American Literature - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eBenjamin Widiss\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLiterary studies in the postwar era have consistently barred attributing specific intentions to authors based on textual evidence or ascribing textual presences to the authors themselves. \u003ci\u003eObscure Invitations\u003c\/i\u003e argues that this taboo has blinded us to fundamental elements of twentieth-century literature. Widiss focuses on the particularly self-conscious constructions of authorship that characterize modernist and postmodernist writing, elaborating the narrative strategies they demand and the reading practices they yield. He reveals that apparent manifestations of \"the death of the author\" and of the \"free play\" of language are performances that ultimately affirm authorial control of text and reader. The book significantly revises received understandings of central texts by Faulkner, Stein, and Nabokov. It then discusses Eggers' \u003ci\u003eHeartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius\u003c\/i\u003e and the films \u003ci\u003eSeven\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Usual Suspects\u003c\/i\u003e, demonstrating that each is a highly self-aware rebuttal of the notion of authorial absence.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eBenjamin Widiss is Assistant Professor of English at Princeton University.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 220\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.8 x 8.9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e September 01, 2011\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67634992775270,"sku":"9780804773232","price":41.07,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0599\/7255\/0758\/files\/vyfZVHftdt9780804773232.webp?v=1791201114","url":"https:\/\/infinitylightwa.com\/products\/obscure-invitations-the-persistence-of-the-author-in-twentieth-century-american-literature-paperback","provider":"Infinity Light","version":"1.0","type":"link"}