Author: Simion, Eugen
Title: The Return of the Author
Description: Evanston [IL], Northwestern Univ. Press, (1996). orig.cloth. 23x15cm, vi, 220 pp. Binding corners bumped. Some minor rubbing. VG. ¶ Contents: The Life of the Author: Proust on Saint-Beuve's ;ethod; Proust on Saint-Beuve on Baudelaire; Balzac's "Vulgar Genius"; Saint-Beuve: The Critic Who was Never Right; Proust Against the Deeper Self; Proust's Biographism; The I is an Other; Valéry as Precursor; Valéry as Biographer; Valéry's Pure Self; Tel Quel & the Author; Probing the Unconscious; Sartre,the Writer & the Reader; Sartre: All is To be Done; Sartre and Author(ity) ; Critical Methods & Literature; Starobinski & Method; Barthes & the Author; Barthe's Paper Author; Barthes as Biographer; An Array of Selves; Who Speaks in the Text?; Eliot & Biography; Writing About the Author; The Author's Life of the Author: Sartre: The Imposture of Childhood & the Birth of Literature; Malraux: A Passion for Greatness. A Religion of Fraternity; Ionesco: Childhood & Light, Literature & the World on the First Day of Creation; Barthes: The Return of the Author to the Text.

Keywords: Literary Criticism, French Literature, Criticsl Theory, Roland Barthes, Jean-Paul Sartre, Saint-Beuve, Marcel Proust, Paul Valery,