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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.

  • confiding
  • revealing

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