Jarrett Langford
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Once the Author is removed, the claim to decipher a text becomes futile. To give a text an Author is to impose a limit on that text, to furnish it with a final signified, to close the writing. The birth of the reader must be at the cost of the death of the Author.
- Barthes, The Death of the Author
- Barthes, The Death of the Author
Once the Author is removed, the claim to decipher a text becomes futile. To give a text an Author is to impose a limit on that text, to furnish it with a final signified, to close the writing. The birth of the reader must be at the cost of the death of the Author.
- Barthes, The Death of the Author
- Barthes, The Death of the Author
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December 26, 2024 at 10:19 AM
Once the Author is removed, the claim to decipher a text becomes futile. To give a text an Author is to impose a limit on that text, to furnish it with a final signified, to close the writing. The birth of the reader must be at the cost of the death of the Author.
- Barthes, The Death of the Author
- Barthes, The Death of the Author