Plagiarism scandals and debates about the rights of use for online publications have drawn attention to the problems associated with the concept of authorship. In literary studies, there have long been disputes about whether the category of the author can be done away with, if it might even be time to proclaim the "death of the author," or whether the author is currently returning as a guide for the literary canon of values.

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Michael Wetzel, University of Bonn, Germany.