The problem of authorship in literary theory: deletions, resumptions and revisions

Abstract

The latest discussions about authorship are closely related to the searching for the meaning of the text. Because of that, the authorship is being understood as one of the most controversial subjects in literature theory. The first two parts of this paper comprehend a critic and sistematic analysis of 1. the author refusal as source of the text meaning (Proust, Eliot, Croce, Wimsatt and Beardsley, Derrida, Barthes and Foucault), and 2. the defense and reviewing of this concept (Booth, Bloom, Eco e Compagnon). And in the last part, 3. it is proposed a particular hypothesis of analises and interpretation of the authorship, through a change of contexts: the recurrence to the heteronomy concept, by Fernando Pessoa.