Kundera and the Ambiguity of Authorship

Christine Angela Knoop

Kundera and the Ambiguity of Authorship

Christine Angela Knoop

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Milan Kundera (1929-), Czech novelist

MHRA Texts and Dissertations 79

Maney Publishing for the Modern Humanities Research Association

25 March 2011 • 202pp

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The scholarly debate about authorship has not only transcended all aspects of literary studies, but has also prompted contemporary authors to counter, subvert, and challenge it. One author to whom this applies in particular is Milan Kundera. In this study, Christine Knoop re-examines Kundera’s essayistic and novelistic work against the background of the theoretical paradigms of literary authority, intention, and ownership. In so doing, she demonstrates how he overcomes traditional theoretical distinctions by postulating the existence of both a strong, powerful author figure and of potentially boundless literary meaning. Kundera’s radically ambiguous conception of the author in the novel, developed primarily to influence the reader, is discussed and developed to cast new light on the critical debate about authorship at large while maintaining his primary conjecture that authorship as such is perpetually hybrid, dynamic, and unfinished.

Christine Angela Knoop is a Postdoctoral Research Associate for Comparative Literature at Freie Universität Berlin.

Contents:

i-iv	Front Matter Christine Angela Knoop doi:10.2307/j.ctt2tt8b2.1	Cite
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v-vi	Table of Contents Christine Angela Knoop doi:10.2307/j.ctt2tt8b2.2	Cite
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vii-vii	Acknowledgements Christine Angela Knoop doi:10.2307/j.ctt2tt8b2.3	Cite
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viii-viii	Note On References Christine Angela Knoop doi:10.2307/j.ctt2tt8b2.4	Cite
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1-16	Introduction. Between Ethics and Aesthetics: Introducing Kundera’s Approach To Authorship Christine Angela Knoop doi:10.2307/j.ctt2tt8b2.5	Cite
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17-50	PART I The Role of Intention in the Production of Literary Meaning Christine Angela Knoop doi:10.2307/j.ctt2tt8b2.6	Cite
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51-88	PART II Source and Development of Fictional Literary Texts Christine Angela Knoop doi:10.2307/j.ctt2tt8b2.7	Cite
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89-140	PART III Controlling the Reader’s Reception Christine Angela Knoop doi:10.2307/j.ctt2tt8b2.8	Cite
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141-172	PART IV Transformation Christine Angela Knoop doi:10.2307/j.ctt2tt8b2.9	Cite
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173-185	Conclusion. Paths in the Fog Christine Angela Knoop doi:10.2307/j.ctt2tt8b2.10	Cite
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186-193	Bibliography Christine Angela Knoop doi:10.2307/j.ctt2tt8b2.11	Cite
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194-198	INDEX Christine Angela Knoop doi:10.2307/j.ctt2tt8b2.12	Cite
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Knoop, Christine Angela, Kundera and the Ambiguity of Authorship, MHRA Texts and Dissertations, 79 (MHRA, 2011)

First footnote reference: ³⁵ Christine Angela Knoop, Kundera and the Ambiguity of Authorship, MHRA Texts and Dissertations, 79 (MHRA, 2011), p. 21.

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Knoop, Christine Angela. 2011. Kundera and the Ambiguity of Authorship, MHRA Texts and Dissertations, 79 (MHRA)

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