Greatly Exaggerated
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"Greatly Exaggerated" is an essay by David Foster Wallace that critically examines the role, relevance, and alleged "death" of the author in contemporary literary theory.
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| Greatly Exaggerated canonical | 1 |
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| instanceOf |
essay
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literary criticism essay ⓘ |
| about |
academic literary criticism
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limits of theoretical approaches to literature ⓘ relationship between authors and texts ⓘ |
| author | David Foster Wallace NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
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| discussesConcept |
authorial intention
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intentional fallacy ⓘ interpretive communities ⓘ textual meaning ⓘ theoretical jargon in literary studies ⓘ |
| field |
literary studies
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literary theory ⓘ |
| genre |
literary criticism
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nonfiction ⓘ |
| hasTone |
analytic
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critical ⓘ ironic ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| literaryPeriodDiscussed |
contemporary literature
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postmodernism ⓘ |
| mainTopic |
Michel Foucault
NERFINISHED
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Roland Barthes NERFINISHED ⓘ authorship ⓘ contemporary literary theory ⓘ death of the author ⓘ poststructuralism ⓘ reader-response theory ⓘ role of the author in literary theory ⓘ |
| perspective |
critical of extreme anti-author positions in literary theory
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defends a nuanced role for the author in interpretation ⓘ |
| positionOnTopic | argues that reports of the death of the author are exaggerated ⓘ |
| writtenBy | David Foster Wallace NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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