death of the author

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English

Etymology

From French: La mort de l'auteur was a 1967 essay by the French literary critic and theorist Roland Barthes (1915–1980).

Noun

death of the author (uncountable)

  1. A technique of literary analysis that disregards authorial intent, focusing only on the text.

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