The Collaborative International Dictionary
Authorial \Au*tho"ri*al\, a.
Of or pertaining to an author. ``The authorial ?we.'''
--Hare.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
a. of, coming from, or typical of an author (especially of books)
WordNet
adj. of or by or typical of an author; "authorial comments"; "auctorial flights of imagination" [syn: auctorial]
Usage examples of "authorial".
Second, its account of events comes to us through a narrator who at times assumes authorial omniscience but who is also presented as partial, not fully informed, and limited in understanding.
He then uses that force as a prism through which to focus a philosophy of language, a hypothesis about authorial intention, or an understanding of a particular cultural period.
But unlike the authoritative and authorial discourse that Tolstoy directs toward this end, the penetrated word does not stand above or outside the discourse of the characters.
Since the three heroes are not conscious of one another, they can be made meaningful to one another only in the authorial, and authoritative, field of vision that encompasses them all.
Inevitably, in such situations the authorial surplus is used to instruct.
The first-person author acknowledges the lack of narrative completeness, while the plural pronoun immediately following suggests authorial objectivity and stature.
The sham of authenticity that discounts authorial involvement and intrusion is back in force in this novel written in the 1790s and published at the turn of the century.
Only a third avatar of the authorial function can account for it all, a Kundera who is both author and narrator, one who simultaneously controls his writing and directs our reading.
Therefore, we must add to the silent multiple permutations of the authorial selves one more: Kundera as self-inscribed reader who rewrites as he rereads, sending us back to the initial query.
One need only refer to his own interviews, particularly in French, to discover that he loves to hide behind his authorial right to distance himself yet claim that he has put himself fully inside his own writing.
As slight variation on a theme, linguistic as well as affective, this is his authorial signature.
As a metaphor, the window becomes the marker of authorial non-interference.
Further, I am convinced that on the issue of authorial intervention deconstruction facilitates reader participation in the construction of meaning.
Blomberg that the evidence does not support the later authorial attributions of the Gospels, or the early dates you would prefer.
The authorial identity in a work of professional discipline such as his is subordinated to the demands of the field, as well as to the demands of the subject matter.