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The author is not dead, for book historians, but she has been desacralized. From the Latin auctor-one who approves or sanctions, provides evidence or expertise; a prime mover; a progenitor of a race or nation; or one who creates a work of art-the English term author came to signify the sole originat...

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Published in:Early American studies 2018-10, Vol.16 (4), p.599
Main Author: Rezek, Joseph
Format: Article
Language:eng
Subjects:
18th century
Authorship
Connotation
Copyright
English language
God
Historians
Individualism
Literature
Mythology
Race
Sanctions
Word meaning
Writers
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Summary:The author is not dead, for book historians, but she has been desacralized. From the Latin auctor-one who approves or sanctions, provides evidence or expertise; a prime mover; a progenitor of a race or nation; or one who creates a work of art-the English term author came to signify the sole originator of a literary text long after its association with God, the "Author of Nature." Its literary meaning acquired a hallowed, quasi-mythological connotation only after the mutual imbrication of bourgeois individualism, professional authorship, and proprietary copyright in the eighteenth century.
ISSN:1543-4273
1559-0895