by Payal Mudliar

1. SHRI BALAJI
INFOTECH
By Payal Mudliar
SHRI BALAJI
INFOTECH

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3. “
is a 1967 essay by
the French literary
critic and theorist
Roland Barthes
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4. ✦ Barthes's essay argues against
traditional literary criticism's
practice.
✦ The essay's first English-language
publication was in the American
journal Aspen.
✦ In his essay, Barthes argues
against the method of reading and
criticism
✦ It relies on aspects of an author's
identity to distill meaning from
the author's work. 4

5. ✦ No longer the focus of creative
influence, the author is merely
a "scriptor“
✦ He introduces this notion of
intention in the epigraph to the
essay
✦ “The Death of the Author“ is a
landmark for 20th century
literature, literary theory, post
structuralism, and
postmodernism.
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6. ✦ The essay opposes the
established trends and abolish
the classical literary criticism
that analyses a literary work
within the biographical and
personal context of the author
of the work.
✦ The essay argues that a literary
work should not be analyzed by
the information about the real-
life person who created it.
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7. ✦ It argues against incorporating
the intensions and biographical
context of an author.
✦ It this essay, Barthes criticizes
the readers tendency to to
consider aspects of the authors
identity-his political views,
historical context, religion,
ethnicity, psychology, or other
biographical or personal
attributes.
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8. ✦ In the critical schematic, the
experiences and biases of the
author serve as its definitive
“explanation”.
✦ Readers must separate a
literary work from from its
creator in order to liberate it
from interpretive tyranny.
✦ In a famous Quotation, Barthes
draw an analogy between text
and textiles.
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9. ✦ The essential meaning of a word
depends on the impressions of
the reader, rather than the
“passions” or “tastes” of the
writer.
✦ The author is merely a
“scriptor”.
✦ The “scriptor” exists to produce
but not to explain the work.
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10. ✦ A post-structuralist text, “The
Death of the Author" influenced
French continental philosophy,
particularly those of Jacques,
Derrida and Michel Foucault.
✦ The essay argues that a literary
work should not be analyzed by
the information about the real-
life person who created it.
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11. ✦ It rejects the idea of authorial
intent, and instead develop a
reader-response critical theory.
✦ The use of the word “quotation”
expresses the idea that a text
cannot really be “created” or
“original”.
✦ This essay can have several
implications, both literal and
metaphoric.
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12. ✦ In this literary writing, the the
death of the author is the “death
attention to his presence in the
text.
✦ “The Death of the Author“ is the
inability to create, produce, or
discover any text or idea.
✦ “The Death of the Author“ is the
multiplicity of meaning-therefore
the ultimate collapse of meaning.
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