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标题：Death of the Author: Literary Theorists Meditating on Authorship of Literary texts
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作者：Parul Mishra ; Swati Kumari
期刊名称：International Journal of Early Childhood Special Education
电子版ISSN：1308-5581
出版年度：2022
卷号：14
期号：3
页码：8859-8862
DOI：10.9756/INT-JECSE/V14I3.1025
语种：English
出版社：International Journal of Early Childhood Special Education
摘要：The phrase ‘death of the author’ was widely used by the American literary academy, referring to a general current coming from France, from Post-Structuralism, from newly theoretical literary studies. The death of the author was controversial—under attack both by older-style humanist critics and by newer political mugging on the exceptionality of the principle. The slogan was taken to characterize a wide swath of French literary theory. Researching the phrase’s usage, it is observed that critics who use it generally refer the reader to two articles—and by and large to only two articles—always the same two, which appeared within a year of each other, one by Roland Barthes in 1968 and the other by Michel Foucault in 1969. Barthes and Foucault were such big names in our star- based reception of Post-Structuralism, and different enough from each other, that this convergence of two articles was able by itself to represent an entire theoretical trend.Gayatri Chakrabarty Spivak also addresses the literary theoretical concept directly in her 1999 book. Spivak’s take on the author’s death does not deny that the author is dead, but it refuses that death is any finality: the author is dead but his ghost keeps (us) going.For instance her work on Marx; While Marx’s ghost is a figure used to make a general point about authors, it is probably not coincidental that Spivak talks about the death of the author in the section of her book on Marx.
关键词：Post Structuralism;Structuralism;Literary theory