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The Author Who Was Already Dead
In 1967, Roland Barthes wrote one of the most provocative essays in literary theory: The Death of the Author. His argument was philosophical — the author’s intentions are irrelevant to the meaning a text produces. Meaning is generated in the act of reading, not the act of writing. It was polemical. It was designed to liberate the […]