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description:  we know that to restore to writing its future we must reverse its myth: the birth of the reader must be ransomed by the death of the Author.'The Death of the Author' is a 1967 essay by the French literary critic and theorist Roland Barthes. Barthes's essay argues against traditional literary criticism's practice of incorporating the intentions and biographical context of an author in an interpretation of a text and instead argues that writing and creator are unrelated. Roland Barthes (1915-1980) was a French literary theorist philosopher linguist critic and semiotician. Barthes' ideas explored a diverse range of fields and he influenced the development of schools of theory including structuralism semiotics social theory design theory anthropology and post-structuralism.
language: English
title: The Death of the Author
publisher: None