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Death of the AuthorStudent Edition
  • By Roland Barthes
  • Natalie Connelly and Jessica Trueba
  • Edited by Dr. Kay Picart
  • Associate Professor of English
  • Courtesy Associate Professor of Law
  • and Brett Ader

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Roland Barthes
  • 1915- 1980
  • French social and literary critic, whos writing
    on semiotics made structuralism one of the
    leading intellectual movements of the 20th
    century.
  • Spent a long period of his life in sanatoriums
    because of tuberculosis. During this time is when
    he began to show interest in writing.
  • He spent the majority of his life writing and
    teaching at prestigious universities around the
    world.
  • He died in March 23, 1980 in a street accident .

3
Marx and Hegel
  • Marxs believes that ______ makes man
  • Hegel believes that ______ makes history

4
What is Barthes view of writing and authorship?
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What is structuralism?
  • Structuralism ___________________________
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  • Four characteristics of structuralist analysis
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The Awareness of Writing
  • Mallarmes entire poetics consists in
    suppressing the author in the interest of
    writing
  • In France, Mallarme is the first one who foresees
    the necessity of language itself. For Mallarme,
    it is language which speaks, not the author.
    Moreover, to write is to reach the point that
    language "performs," not "me.

7
What is surrealism?
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What are Utopian Dreams?
9
The Death of the Author
  • Barthes uses the relationship between the
    ________ or the _________ and the text as an
    example to emphasize the death of the author.
  • Barthes indicates that it is the ________ or the
    _________ who understand written words. These
    writings are drawn from different cultures and
    then become relations of dialogues and parody in
    literature .

10
Discussion
  • Do you agree or disagree with Barthes theories of
    history and man?

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Discussion
  • Barthes said that the author cannot claim any
    absolute authority over his or her text because,
    in some ways, he or she did not write it. Do you
    agree or disagree?
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