Death of the Author: Barthes and Foucault 2.0 / 5 based on 1 rating ? English LiteratureDeath of the Author theoryUniversityNone Created by: Molly BurdettCreated on: 26-04-17 10:51 General: who saw the author as an immortal figure? Victorians 1 of 25 General: why does this theory begin in the 1960s? Postmodern culture - everything was text 2 of 25 General: what is the author like? stage manager 3 of 25 Foucault (1969): what has contemporary writing rid itself of? expression 4 of 25 Foucault (1969): what happens to the writing subject in contemporary writing? it 'endlessly disappears' 5 of 25 Foucault (1969): what is the danger of just getting rid of visible signs of the author? it can just transfer his authority to another transcendental form e.g. religion 6 of 25 Foucault (1969): what is an author's name? 'equivalent of a description' - holds associations and designations 7 of 25 Foucault (1969): what was authorship originally? action on a continuum e.g. lawful to unlawful 8 of 25 Foucault (1969): what are 'creative power' and 'intentions'? our projections of how we handle texts 9 of 25 Foucault (1969): what does an author do in modern criticism? explains events, creates unity and neutralises contradictions 10 of 25 Foucault (1969): what is an author? 'variety of egos and...series of subjective positions' 11 of 25 Foucault (1969): where does the 'author function' come from? distance between writer and fictional narrator 12 of 25 Foucault (1969): what else can be authored? theories or traditions 13 of 25 Foucault (1969): why must later practitioners of discourse always 'return to their origin'? the initiation always deliberately omits something 14 of 25 Barthes (1968): what is writing? 'the destruction of every voice, of every point of origin' 15 of 25 Barthes (1968): why is the author 'a modern figure, a product of our society'? linked to the Reformation and empiricism's emphasis on the individual 16 of 25 Barthes (1968): we shouldn't focus on an author's person because they are not ___________ in us. confiding 17 of 25 Barthes (1968): what does Barthes say about language? language speaks not the author - it knows a 'subject' not a 'person' 18 of 25 Barthes (1968): what is a text? 'multi-dimensional space in which a variety of writings, none of them original, blend and clash' 19 of 25 Barthes (1968): how is writing described? performative 20 of 25 Barthes (1968): what must an author remember? he is a 'ready-formed dictionary' of existing language 21 of 25 Barthes (1968): what happens if we give a text an author? 'impose a limit on that text, to furnish it with a final signified, to close the writing' 22 of 25 Barthes (1968): where does a text's unity come together? its destination - the reader 23 of 25 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' 24 of 25 Foucault (1969): what is the state of the author function it is not unchangeable and can be removed 25 of 25
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