Author, Authorship and Authority
Topics of study may seek to examine Canon formations, Award-regimes Socio-economic, cultural, political and legal conditions that produce notions of author/ship in different periods and places (e.g.: rise of the professional author copyright laws, the rise/fall of magazine culture, reading cultures) Minority writing/Minor literatures Literary controversies “Anonymous”, Pseudonyms, Heteronyms, Individual careers In this course we would read a variety of texts ranging from letters, speeches, award citations, prefaces, manifestoes, auto/biographies literary pieces that centre the figure of the author and/or issues of authorship (e.g.: Alexander. Pope, “The Dunciad”; Thomas Chatterton, Poems supposed to have been written at Bristol in the Fifteenth Century by Thomas Rowley, Priest, &c.”; A.S Byatt, Possession; Alison Bechdel, Are You My Mother?; Doris Lessing, The Golden Notebook; Roberto Bolano Amulet works of literary criticism and theory
1. Abrams, M.H., The Mirror and the Lamp: Romantic Theory and the Critical Tradition, NewYork: OUP, 1953.2. Berensmeyer, Ingo, Gert Buelens and Marysa Demoor, (eds), The Cambridge Handbook ofLiterary Authorship, Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 20213. Egan, Gerald, Fashioning Authorship in the Long Eighteenth Century: Stylish Books ofPoetic Genius, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016.4. Keshavmurthy, Prashant, Persian Authorship and Canonicity in Late Mughal Delhi:Building an Ark, Routledge, 2016.5. Palmer, Beth, Women302222s Authorship and Editorship in Victorian Culture:SensationalStrategies, Oxford: OUP, 2011.6. Vardy, Alan D., Constructing Coleridge: The Posthumous Life of the Author Hunter Collegeand the Graduate, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010.7. Wells, Sarah Ann, Media Laboratories: Late Modernist Authorship in South America,Northwestern University Press, 2017.8. Wirt303251n, Eva Hemmungs, No Trespassing: Authorship, Intellectual Property Rights, and theBoundaries of Globalisation, Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2004