TY - BOOK ID - 78074366 TI - Authorship in Nabokov's prefaces PY - 2014 SN - 1443873020 9781443873024 1322607826 9781322607825 1443866822 9781443866828 9781443866828 PB - Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, DB - UniCat KW - Nabokov, Vladimir Vladimirovich, KW - Sirin, Vladimir, KW - Sirin, Vl. KW - Sirin, V. KW - Nabokoff-Sirin, Wladimir, KW - Sirin, Wladimir Nabokoff-, KW - Nabokov, Vladimir, KW - Shishkov, Vasiliĭ, KW - Набоков, Владимир Владимирович, KW - Набоков, Владимир, KW - נאבוקוב, ולאדימיר ולאדימירוביץ׳, KW - נאבוקוב, ולאדימיר, KW - נבוקוב, ולדימיר, KW - 納布可夫, KW - Godunov-Cherdynt︠s︡ev, Fedor KW - Criticism and interpretation. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:78074366 AB - Whereas literary criticism has mainly oscillated between "the death of the author" (Barthes) and "the return of the author" (Couturier), this work suggests another perspective on authorship through an analysis of Nabokov's prefaces. It is here argued that the author, being neither dead nor tyrannical, alternates between authoritative apparitions and receding disappearances in the double gesture of mastery without mastery which Derrida calls 'exappropriation', that is, a simultaneous attempt t. ER -