Death of the Author+

What Is An Author?

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Roland Barthes1915 - 1980FrenchStructuralistPost-structuralist

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LinguistSemioticianLiterary theoristCritic

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Materiality of “Death of the Author”

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Often cited as 1968

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Initial publication: 1967

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Mai 68

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“revolutionary spirit”

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late 1967 is not quite May 1968

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materiality of the text

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“La mort de l’auteur”Manteia, 1968

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“The Death of the Author”Aspen 5+6

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So, what do we have here?

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Michel Foucault

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no, wait

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Michel Foucault1926 - 1984FrenchPost-structuralistPostmodernist (depending on who you ask)

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“The main interest in life and work is to become someone else that you were not in the beginning.”

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Literary criticTheoristHistorian of ideas

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“What is an Author?”1969 lecture

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1977

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