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6. Foucault (1969): what was authorship originally?
- an action of ownership
- action on a continuum e.g. lawful to unlawful
- a legally determined precedent
7. General: what is the author like?
- stage manager
- director
- actor
8. Barthes (1968): we shouldn't focus on an author's person because they are not ___________ in us.
9. Foucault (1969): why must later practitioners of discourse always 'return to their origin'?
- the initiation needs to be adapted
- the initiation always deliberately omits something
- everything is contained in the initiation
10. Barthes (1968): how is writing described?
- deterministic
- performative
- demonstrative
11. General: who saw the author as an immortal figure?
- Victorians
- Romantics
- Modernists
12. Barthes (1968): where does a text's unity come together?
- its origin - the author
- its destination - the reader
- its destination - the critic
13. General: why does this theory begin in the 1960s?
- Postmodern culture - author was text
- Postmodern culture - everything was text
- Postmodern culture - nothing was text
14. Barthes (1968): what is a text?
- 'multi-dimensional space in which a variety of writings, none of them original, harmoniously relate'
- 'multi-dimensional space in which a variety of writings, none of them original, blend and clash'
- 'multi-dimensional space in which a variety of writings, all of them original, blend and clash'
15. Barthes (1968): what is the final famous quote of Barthes' text?
- 'the birth of the reader must be at the cost of the death of the author'
- 'the birth of the reader is at no cost to the death of the author'
16. Foucault (1969): what happens to the writing subject in contemporary writing?
- it 'endlessly disappears'
- it 'dissolves into the language'
- it 'repeatedly appears'
17. Foucault (1969): where does the 'author function' come from?
- distance between fictional narrator and reader
- distance between writer and fictional narrator
- distance between writer and reader
18. Foucault (1969): what is the state of the author function
- it is not unchangeable and can be removed
- it is unchangeable and can't be removed
19. Foucault (1969): what is an author?
- 'variety of egos and...series of subjective positions'
- 'variety of egos and...series of objective positions'
20. Barthes (1968): what must an author remember?
- he is a 'ready-formed dictionary' of existing language
- he is an 'original dictionary' of new language