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Roland Barthes has written “Death of the Author” to critique literary critics of his time
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The “death” he is
expressing, is directed at the author’s view of himself as a creative genius where his or her
written text is expressing an inner vision
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” He opposes the mainstream view that a writer is ever-present in his
work so that it is consequently filled with expressions of the author’s distinct personality
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It is the critic who does literature injustice by seeking to
uncover the true meaning lying behind an author’s work
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By piecing apart each so-called meaning the
author attaches behind his work, the critic is “refusing the author,” and thus robbing the reader of
the ability to develop his or her own literary judgments
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However, this only deflates the text and undermines the author’s purpose in
writing
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In allowing an author to enter his own death when his writing begins, the author is
removed from the analysis the work
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Without an author, the text lacks any “authoritative viewpoint,” and
thus opens up all opinions and views without limits to a number of readers
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There is
limitless opportunity for commentary about a piece of literature
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Roland Barthes brings forward with “Death of the Author” that contradicts what is
previously believed is that literature does not represent something and is not set in stone: instead,
multiple language systems contribute to the work and the playing of this allows it to be written,
and read, in different ways
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Taking away the author and critic
leaves the literature unfinished and opens ways for the reader, not the critic, to grow

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