Death of the Author: Barthes and Foucault

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1. Foucault (1969): what are 'creative power' and 'intentions'?

  • our tools for determining authority
  • our projections of how we handle texts
  • our methods for constructing texts
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2. Foucault (1969): what is an author?

  • 'variety of egos and...series of subjective positions'
  • 'variety of egos and...series of objective positions'

3. Barthes (1968): what does Barthes say about language?

  • language speaks not the author - it knows a 'subject' not a 'person'
  • language speaks through the author - it knows a 'subject' not a 'person'
  • the author speaks through the language ' - it knows a 'person' not a 'subject'

4. Foucault (1969): what is an author's name?

  • 'equivalent of a description' - holds associations and designations
  • 'equivalent of an association' - holds designations and descriptions
  • 'equivalent of a designation' - holds associations and descriptions

5. 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
  • it can expose the actual authority to the reader
  • it can leave the text vulnerable to non-transcendental forms
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