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What's your stance on Death of the Author?
The "Death of the Author" is a literary concept stating that an author's personal life, beliefs, and intended meaning should not control how a text is interpreted by French theorist Roland Barthes in his 1967 essay, the theory argues that once a work is published, it belongs entirely to the reader.
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The "death of the author" is not a complete disengagement of the reader from the author, it's the concept of how you approach analysis. It is not "we ignore the author's history", "we ignore the author's past", "we ignore the author's political beliefs"...
You can split a work into three things:
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