One of the positions taken by post-structuralist theorists is that the author is dead. As is the case with most theoretical positions, the first task of the reader should be to understand as fully as possible what the issues really are. It’s easy to short-circuit a theoretical position if you don’t unfold it, don’t see [...]
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The ‘death of the author’ as an instance of theory
Posted in Literary Theory, tagged Brock University, Contemporary Literary Theory on May 27, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
