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I wanted to start out by noticing that almost all of us had a reaction to the Barthes’s text “The Death of an Author” and like most of you I have also decided to write on this but also on Foucault’s “what is an author?”. I started by reading Barthes’s “The Death of an Author” […]
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17. September 2013 by Syndicated User
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It’s curious to see that several of us are feeling a little skeptical about the announcement of the “death of the author” and about the absolute power of interpretation given to the new-born reader. Admittedly I am also among those who were asking themselves: ” does the author has to die?”, it seems that we […]
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17. September 2013 by Syndicated User
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Both Barthes’ “The Death of the Author” and Foucault’s “What Is an Author” are very stimulating, insightful texts that do exactly what Dr. Freilick identified as one of the primary goals of this course – they make us question our … Continue reading → Continue reading →
17. September 2013 by Syndicated User
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16. September 2013 by Syndicated User
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I remember that when I was in elementary school, the most common question in the tales that were on the textbooks of Literature was: “What does the author wants to say?” Roland Barthes would find this question terrible, castrating. And … Continue reading → Continue reading →
16. September 2013 by Syndicated User
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Barthes proposal elaborates about who should defines the act of literature. He defends the idea that the Author is “a modern figure” that has been supported by the positivism, the culmination of capitalism, and now (in 1967), he argues literature … Continue reading → Continue reading →
15. September 2013 by Syndicated User
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Pour les francophones, voici un lien qui vous permettra de prolonger la réflexion sur la “mort de l’auteur”: http://litterature.ens-lyon.fr/litterature/dossiers/themes-genres-formes/la-figure-de-lauteur
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12. September 2013 by Syndicated User
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It surprised me how frequently we talk about science or scientific approaches when dealing with literary and linguistic studies in the pages we read this week. From Russian Formalists who were initially inspired by philosophers of science like Edmund Husserl (3), to the French Structuralists who were greatly influenced by the studies of Ferdinand de […]
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10. September 2013 by Syndicated User
Categories: Barthes, Eichenbaum, Shklovsky |
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In Mythologies, Roland Barthes takes up the challenge posed by Ferdinand de Saussure in his Course in General Linguistics: to elaborate “semiology” as what Saussure terms “a science which studies the role of signs as part of social life” (15). … Continue reading → Continue reading →
08. February 2011 by Syndicated User
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