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Collaboration and Concepts of Authorship

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 October 2020

M. Thomas Inge
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Despite efforts among recent critical theorists to remove, banish, or even kill the author, the author remains at the center of general critical attention. It is commonplace now to understand that all texts produced by authors are not the products of individual creators. Rather, they are the result of any number of discourses that take place among the writer, the political and social environments in which the writing occurs, the aesthetic and economic pressures that encourage the process, the psychological and emotional state of the writer, and the reader who is expected to receive or consume the end product when it reaches print. Even if not intended for an audience or the publishing marketplace, a piece of writing cannot escape the numerous influences that produce it. All discourse is socially constructed.

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Theories and Methodologies
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PMLA , Volume 116 , Issue 3 , May 2001, pp. 623 - 630
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Copyright © Modern Language Association of America, 2001

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