Theoretical debate has declared the author obsolete. In practice, however, certain usages of the author concept are repeatedly demonstrated as being legitimate. This discrepancy suggests that theoretical reflection on the author fails to do justice to central forms of the scholarly approach to literature. The articles in this volume take both systematic and historical perspectives on this controversial term in an attempt to accurately reconstruct the history of the concept and to analyze the problem constellations generated by it in practice. The discussion also extends to non-literary media such as film, music, art, and hypertexts.

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Inhalt: Fotis Jannidis/Gerhard Lauer/Matias Martinez/Simone Winko, Rede über den Autor an die Gebildeten unter seinen Verächtern. Historische Modelle und systematische Perspektiven. - I. Autor und Intention: Simone Winko, Einführung. - Karl Eibl, Der >Autorimplizite AutorAutorAutorschaft<. - Seán Burke, The Politics of Authorship. Views from Everywhere and Nowhere. - IV. Autor und Medien: Matias Martinez, Einführung. - Werner Kamp, Autorkonzepte in der Filmkritik. - Matias Martinez, Autorschaft und Intertextualität. - Catherine M. Soussloff, The Aura of Power and Mystery that Surround the Artist. - John Spitzer, Style and the Attribution of Musical Works. - Simone Winko, Lost in hypertext? Autorkonzepte und neue Medien.