The Author as Reader: Textual Visions and Revisions

Product Description
One of the most radical conceptual shifts in postmodern debates about art has been the dismantlement of the very idea of a work of art, its unity and ontological status. The move from
work to
text has entailed far-reaching questions concerning the status and function of the artist or author, the role of interpretive communities, and the constitution of texts as intertexts. By concentrating on the
author as reader,
the present volume explores the process of writing in terms of
textual visions and revisions undertaken by the author him- or herself. Tracing an author’s foot- or fingerprints along the multiple versions of a text does not only alert us to the fact that a printed text may not be the first version, nor may it be the final, let alone finished, version; more radically, it suggests that works of art are fleeting products within a fluid process of transformations.
About the Author
The Editors: Sabine Coelsch-Foisner, born in Upper Austria (1960), is Professor of English Literature and Cultural Theory and coordinates the Interdisciplinary Research Centre
Metamorphic Changes in the Arts at the University of Salzburg. Her publications include a study on William Morris and an award-winning study on Mid-Twentieth-Century British Women’s Poetry. Her main fields of research are cultural/critical theory, poetry, Victorian culture and literature, fantastic body transformations, literature and the arts.
Wolfgang Görtschacher, born in Linz, Upper Austria (1960), is Assistant Professor at the University of Salzburg teaching literary criticism and translation studies. He has published books and numerous articles on little magazines and the small press scene in Great Britain. He is the owner-director of Poetry Salzburg, a publishing company specialising in English poetry, and edits the poetry magazine
Poetry Salzburg Review. Current projects include a book on the impact of Non-Shakespearean Elizabethan and Jacobean Drama on later dramatists.