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1. english-studies.net › authority-in-literatureAuthority in Literature & Literary Theory - English Studies

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   Oct 24, 2023 · In theoretical terms, “authority” denotes the legitimate and recognized power vested in individuals, institutions, or entities to make decisions, exercise control, and influence others based on expertise, official status, or moral credibility within specific contexts.

2. english-studies.net › appeal-to-authority-inAppeal to Authority in Literature - Literary Devices ...

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   Dec 19, 2023 · Appeal to authority in literature serves as a powerful rhetorical device where characters or narrative elements derive influence, guidance, or validation from figures of recognized wisdom, expertise, or social standing.

3. academic.oup.com › edited-volume › 28095Authority | Middle English | Oxford Academic

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   This article examines authority, with emphasis on textual authority and how it extends the purview of medievalist literary criticism, in part by historicizing textual production. It also discusses the use of textual authority by both medievals and medievalists to understand literary innovation.

4. oxfordre.com › literature › displayAuthorship | Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Literature

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   Writers are not necessarily authors: authorship requires recognition and attribution, and these depend on institutional processes of publication, textual stabilization, criticism, education, and appropriate legal, regulatory, and economic conditions.

5. link.springer.com › book › 10Shakespeare and Authority: Citations, Conceptions and ...

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   Examines how and why Shakespeare became a figure of English cultural authority. Looks at Shakespeare's sources or 'authorities' and how they impact his work. Considers how Shakespeare's characters are constructed as a form of authority and order.

6. english-studies.net › appeal-to-authority-aAppeal to Authority: A Rhetorical Device - Literary Devices

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   Dec 19, 2023 · The “appeal to authority” is a rhetorical device where an argument relies on the credibility or prestige of a presumed expert or authority figure to bolster its validity.

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   Is authority a one thing?

   • In other words, authority is never properly one thing. An integral part of authority is recognition, insofar as the signs of power or status are encoded or displayed. During the medieval period, authority was an important subject for writers. In medieval theories of authorship, authorship was consistently identified with authority.

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   Why is authority important in medieval literature?

   • During the medieval period, authority was an important subject for writers. In medieval theories of authorship, authorship was consistently identified with authority. Modern critics of medieval literature consider authority to be perhaps the most persuasive connection between art and context.

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   Do medievalists use textual authority to understand literary innovation?

   • As this brief summary suggests, both medievals and medievalists use textual authority to understand literary innovation, which, at least for modern critics, always seems to involve a tension between the act of writing and an authority that belongs to its past, as well as between persons, texts, and institutions.

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   How does authority work?

   • Authority sometimes works instrumentally: like force, it is used to obtain an end, and, like force, it serves as an aspect of power. Authority sometimes works through substitution: it serves in place of something or someone else, or it expresses the substitutive relation between two things (‘vested in me’).

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   Why is textual authority important?

   • Textual authority also helps us see how literary authority is constituted by the relation of a given text not only to established literary traditions but also to discourses that modern readers usually classify as non-literary, such as penitential manuals, parliamentary records, and medical treatises.

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   Does authority work like a legal precedent?

   • For modern critics, authority often works like a legal precedent: insofar as the act of composing, or copying, or illustrating a text always ‘comes after’ the moment at which an authority is constituted, the text is always determined in some way by the authority in question, even if it also helps to produce that authority as an authority.

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8. www.degruyter.com › document › doiConceptions of literary authorship in modern literary ...

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   Through a systematic review of conceptions of authorship in modern literary theories, I will outline historical shifts, disentangle current debates, and identify a range of approaches, with the aim of informing future studies of this concept. This article is divided into three parts.