Death of the Author

Who is the modern figure?

• Author

• Critic

• Reader

• Scriptor

Author is NOT a product of

• English Empiricism

• French Rationalism

• Greek Heroism

• Personal faith of Reformation

The contemporary culture is tyrannically not centered at

• Author's History

• Author's Taste

• Author's Passion

• Author's Critic

To write is to reach, through a preexisting impersonality is associated with

• Stephen Mallarme

• Marcel Proust

• James Joyce

• Balzac

In the essay “The Death of the Author”, Barthes argues that

• author is important

• writing and author are unrelated

• writing and author are related

• None of the above

The death of the author makes the birth of the __________.

• critic

• writing

• reader

• None of the above

Barthes says that in traditional literary and critical theory, excessive importance has been given to ___________.

• reader

• critic

• author

• None of the above

Barthes says that a text is made of multiple writings. It is the ___________ who deals with the multiplicity of meanings.

• author

• reader

• critic

• None of the above

The essay “The Death of the Author” begins with the interpretation of a famous story writer

• Lacan

• Freud

• Spivak

• Balzac

“The Death of the Author” was published in

• 1968

• 1969

• 1970

• 1967