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A 4 page paper which compares and contrasts Roland Barthes’
“The Death of the Author” and Michel Foucault’s “What is an Author?” No additional
sources cited.
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4 pages (~225 words per page)
File: JR7_RAbarfou.rtf
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subject. This subject is the author. The following paper examines Roland Barthes "The Death of the Author" and Michel Foucaults "What is an Author?" individually, and then compares and contrasts
the two. Barthes Barthes begins his work by referring to a particular story and then asking who is speaking. We are not perhaps sure who is speaking and
as such it does not matter who the author of the story is. He states, "We shall never know, for the good reason that writing is the destruction of every
voice, of every point of origin. Writing is that neutral, composite, oblique space where our subject slips away, the negative where all identity is lost, starting with the very identity
of the body writing" (Barthes). The point he is making is that as soon as we know a fact, the point of view of the facts ceases to be of
importance, or as Barthes states, "As soon as a fact is narrated no longer with a view to acting directly on reality but intransitively, that is to say, finally outside
of any function other than that of the very practice of the symbol itself, this disconnection occurs, the voice loses its origin, the author enters into his own death, writing
begins." In the end of his essay Barthes states, "We are now beginning to let ourselves be fooled no longer by the arrogant antiphrastical recriminations of good society in
favour of the very thing it sets aside, ignores, smothers, or destroys; we know that to give writing its future, it is necessary to overthrow the myth: the birth of
the reader must be at the cost of the death of the Author." We also note that Barthes goes back in time, however, to illustrate how this reality has
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