The English Institute 2010

Readingsfor the Open Discussion (Wimsatt & Beardsley, Foucault) can be found in The Norton Anthology of Theory and Criticism. Wimsatt & Beardsley can also be found in The Verbal Icon: Studies in the Meaning of Poetry (1954), and Foucault inLanguage, Counter-Memory, Practice: Selected Essays and Interviews(1977).

Conference Schedule

Friday, September 10th (Barker Center, Thompson Room)

2:00 p.m. Jean Howard, Columbia University
“The Paradox of Theatrical Authorship”
3:30 p.m. Rita Copeland, University of Pennsylvania
“Insinuating Authors”
5:00 p.m. Reception
Saturday, September 11th (Boylston Hall, Fong Auditorium)
9:30 a.m. Round Table: Open Discussion of W.K. Wimsatt and Monroe Beardsley, “The Intentional Fallacy,” (1946) and Michel Foucault, “What is an Author?” (1969)
11:00 a.m. Ian Duncan, University of California, Berkeley
“Death and the Author”
12:30 p.m. Lunch Break
2:00 p.m. Jacqueline Goldsby, New York University
“Photography and the Golden Age of Negro Authorship”
3:30 p.m. The World Performance Project at Yale
“Authorship and the Literature of Movement”
5:00 p.m. Plenary Meeting
Sunday, September 12th (Boylston Hall, Fong Auditorium)
9:30 a.m. Adela Pinch, University of Michigan
“ ‘A Shape All Light’ ”
11:00 a.m. Jerome Christensen, University of California, Irvine
“Pinocchio Logic, Pixar Theory, and the Assertion of ‘Cultural’ Authorship”
 
Text: 
Author
Session: 
69th Session, 2010
Publication Date: 
Wednesday, April 8, 2015
University: 
Harvard University
Date of publication: 
September 10-12, 2010
Past Conferences Date: 
Friday, September 10, 2010 to Sunday, September 12, 2010