Seymour, Laura

Roland Barthes's The Death of the Author

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ISBN 13:
9781912453061
author:
Seymour, Laura
format:
Paperback
publisher:
Macat International Limited
language:
English
Publication Year:
2018
Pages:
88
Dimensions:
19.7 x 13.3 centimetres (0.18 kg
Genre:
Fiction & Literature, Literary Criticsm, General,
Condition:
New
Availability:
Item usually sent within 10 working days
£9.35

Description

Roland Barthes's seminal essay, "The Death of the Author," challenges traditional approaches to literary interpretation by arguing that an author's intentions and biographical context can limit a text's meaning. Instead, Barthes proposes a new understanding of the reader as the conceptual space containing all the text's possible meanings. This influential work has become a cornerstone of reader response theory and remains a key text for anyone approaching literary analysis. First published in 1967, "The Death of the Author" has had a profound impact on literary criticism and continues to be widely studied and debated today. Its ideas about the reader's role in shaping a text's meaning have far-reaching implications for our understanding of literature and its relationship to the world around us. This concise analysis provides a clear and accessible introduction to Barthes's key ideas and their significance in the field of literary theory.

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