Death of the author

Assignment of post modern thought Topic: Death of the author Submitted to: Sir Rasheed Arshad Submitted by: Waqas Sadiq Roll no. 28

Death of the author

It is a post-structuralist text, first published in the American Journal Aspen. "The Death of the Author" is an easy in 1967, by Roland Barthes. The essay later appeared in an anthology of his essays, Image-Music-Text (1977) Roland Barthes was a French literary critic and theorist. He argues that writing and creator are unrelated. "To give a text an Author" and assign a single, corresponding interpretation to it "is to impose a limit on that text." It is to say that, separate a literary work from its creator in order to liberate the text. Barthes, like the deconstructionists, insists upon the disjointed nature of texts. A text's unity lies not in its origins," or its creator, "but in its audience. the author is merely a "scriptor" (disrupt the traditional continuity of power between the terms "author" and "authority"). The scriptor exists to produce but not to explain the work Barthes articulation of the death of the author is a radical and drastic recognition of this severing of authority and authorship. Each piece of work contains multiple layers and meanings. it is language which speaks, not the author The birth of the reader must be at the cost of the death of the Author.

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Critical interpretation by; Michel Foucault and Jacques Derrida The crucial New Critical precept of the "Intentional Fallacy declares that a poem does not belong to its author; rather, "It is detached from the author at birth and goes about the world beyond his power to control it. The poem belongs to the public.

Conclusion There is no person behind a text. Barthes places full responsibility and interpretive authority in the shoulders of the readers.