Barthes undergoes the 'death of the author'—the author is abolished so that the critic has completely free play within the domain of the text; if the author objects that the critic's reading is not what was intended, the post-structuralist critic responds that the text is completely free and authorial intent has no authority over meaning
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“the author has been abolished and the reason why he wants to abolish the author and abolish authority is because that's what gives the critic completely free play within the domain of the text... so what the text is completely free what you think it means has nothing to do with what it means as far as i'm concerned”
Created: 8/11/2026, 1:42:29 AM
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