Basic background on authors of "Death of the Author" and "What is An Author?" from a Rhet/Comp perspective.

1. Death of the Author
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What Is An Author?
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2. Roland Barthes
1915 - 1980
French
Structuralist
Post-structuralist
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3. Linguist
Semiotician
Literary theorist
Critic
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5. Materiality of
“Death of the Author”
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6. Often cited as 1968
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7. Initial publication: 1967
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8. Mai 68
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10. “revolutionary spirit”
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11. late 1967
is not quite
May 1968
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12. materiality of the text
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13. “La mort de l’auteur”
Manteia, 1968
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15. “The Death of the Author”
Aspen 5+6
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18. So, what do
we have here?
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19. Michel Foucault
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20. no, wait
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21. Michel Foucault
1926 - 1984
French
Post-structuralist
Postmodernist (depending on who you ask)
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22. “The main interest in life and work
is to become someone else that
you were not in the beginning.”
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23. Literary critic
Theorist
Historian of ideas
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27. “What is an Author?”
1969 lecture
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28. 1977
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