The Death of the Author: WTF? Roland Barthes' Death of the Author Explained

Roland Barthes' 1967 essay 'The Death of the Author' challenges the traditional emphasis on authorial intent in literary analysis. Barthes argues that texts are not original creations but collages of pre-existing ideas, and the meaning of a text is shaped by the reader's interpretation rather than the author's intentions. This essay marks a shift from structuralism to post-structuralism, emphasizing the reader's role in deriving meaning from texts.

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