Why is the author a copyist whose power is in combining different writing?
Author can’t be truly original.
Why is the meaning of the text closed down by giving it an author?
The text is henceforth written and read so that in it, on every level, the author absents himself.
Why is the reader better placed than the author to receive the multiplicity of writing?
The author brought something together. but for the reader, lots of them from different background, they get different meaning.
The author is a product and function of society. Whereas in primitive society, the performance of narrative is through a mediator figure. Modern society gives prestige to this figure as a person of genius.
Literary criticism identifies the text as the ordinary voice of the author centred in his personal history, e.g. in Van Gogh’s madness.
The writer is born at the same time as the text. There cannot not be an author who precedes or transcends his writing. He is within language. Author don’t invent language, they just using it.
The ‘text’ is a tissue of citation from many sources and the writer merely combines there. His expression draws on the ready mode, whose words can be explained (defined) only by other words.
The author is an attempt to impose a god over the full, potential meaning of the text. Refusing the ‘secret’ of the text is to liberate the counter-revolutionary activity of reading, historically denied its importance.
How does the digital ‘reader’ open this space?
It gives reader active power to do thing.
There is interaction between ‘me’ and the text, not the author.
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The author figure has functioned to classify work in the likeness of the author. Traditional literary criticism understands the text through the author. Although meaning maybe encoded, it is the reader who completes the text through its interpretation.
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-Personal reading can control the meaning
-The never-ending story
-The reader is the multiple
-Authorship and doctor who
-Affective dimension
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