Sean Burke is Reader in English at the University of Durham. He is the author of "The Death and Return of the Author: Criticism and Subjectivity in Barthes, Foucault and Derrida" (Edinburgh University Press, 1992; 2nd edn, 1998) and the editor of "Authorship: From Plato to the Postmodern: A Reader" (Edinburgh University Press, 1995).