De ene schrijver is de andere niet: Het beeld van de auteur in een functionalistische perspectief
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2013
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Department of Dutch and South African Studies, Faculty of English
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The present article articulates a functional perspective on the author as a central category in literary historiography. Taking as its starting point the common practices in
Dutch literary historiography the paradoxes surrounding the authorial function -- even in so-called postmodern histories -- are analyzed. Authors remain a central dimension of literature and hence of its scholarly study, although the ‘death of the author’ has
been claimed time and again. The present article does not plead for a further death or, alternately, a clear resurrection of the author. Rather it argues for an meticulous analysis of the authorial category as a crucial discursive category, which can be both analyzed
and thematized in a Foucaldian way. A number of topics in relation to this discursivefunctionalist approach to literature are presented.
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literary history, author, functionalism, Dutch literature
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Werkwinkel vol. 8(1), 2013, pp. 45-63