Clare O’Farrell reflects on the question of multiple authorship in The Australian.

BY the late 1960s, French theorists Roland Barthes and Michel Foucault had pronounced the author to be, if not dead, then decidedly fragile.

Authorship is perhaps one of the most highly prized commodities in the academic world, used as a measure of reputation and the means by which individuals are judged worthy of promotion through the ranks of what remains an intricately feudal hierarchy…