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Part One: The Death of the Author? 1 1. The Death of the Author 3 Roland Barthes 2. What Is an Author? 9 Michel Foucault 3. Kierkegaard and the Anxiety of Authorship 23 Merold Westphal 4. Gadamer's Hermeneutics and the Question of Authorial Intention 45 David Weberman 5. The Marginal Life of the Author 65 Jason Holt 6. The Death of the Author: An Analytical Autopsy 79 Peter Lamarque Part Two: The Resurrection of the Author? A Look at Author Constructs 93 7. Writer, Text, Work, Author 95 Alexander Nehamas 8. Authorship and Authority 117 Nickolas Pappas 9. Apparent, Implied, and Postulated Authors 129 Robert Stecker 10. Feminist Literary Criticism and the Author 141 Cheryl Walker 11. A Theory of the Author 161 Jorge J.E. Gracia 12. Intentionalism and Author Constructs 191 William Irwin 13. The Death of Cervantes and the Life of Don Quixote 205 Eric Bronson