What's the word for 'body of work'?

[TheDevilWearsPenneys]

When the author isn't dead.

[SixSpotBurnet]

oeuvre

[PortAndLemon]

oeuvre.

But you can be dead and still have an oeuvre, I think.

[TheDevilWearsPenneys]

oeure? are you sure, I was thinking of another word.

[marina]

corpus?

But a body of work relating to a single author is known as oeuvre.

A list (annotated/critical, whatever) of one person's writings is known as a bibliography

[wordgirl]

canon?

[TheDevilWearsPenneys]

Ach, I'm confusing it with a film director, but still can't quite get the word. It's really annoying me now.

[PortAndLemon]

You're not thinking of auteur, are you?

[TheDevilWearsPenneys]

port and lemon, bingo!

thanks so much

[catinthehat]

eh? "auteur" is surely not the answer to your original question.

[TheDevilWearsPenneys]

It isn't at all, I was just being stupid.

[catinthehat]

[modernart]

Portfolio?

[TheDevilWearsPenneys]

It's canon bloody canon.

[wordgirl]

I said that!

[TheDevilWearsPenneys]

So you did!

[TheDevilWearsPenneys]

(true to your name)

[CocodeBear]

It's not canon. It's oeuvre.

The canon is a list of eg classic artists, or writers of great literature.

[TheDevilWearsPenneys]

ouevere sounds like an egg. But maybe it should

[CocodeBear]

actwerly, oeuvre means 'work' in french. poncey intellectual work, rather than eg farm work.

you, my dear, are think of oeuf.