Death of the Author has never meant the New Critic/Modernist idea that "We must pretend the author does not exist at all and this book fell out of the sky" Barthes was making a very different claim, that the writer is not an *authority* on the work they wrotehttps://twitter.com/BootlegGirl/status/1367893300380844034 …
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In fact "Death of the Author" often means asserting that you ARE allowed to "drag the writer into it personally" when the writer doesn't want you to That if a writer says, e.g., "Leave my religion out of it, it has nothing to do with this book" you're allowed to say "Bullshit"
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If a writer says "The bigoted stuff you see in my writing has nothing to do with my beliefs, I give you my word I didn't put that in intentionally" you can say "You're lying" or "You're in denial" or even "I don't care, it doesn't matter, it's still a bigoted text"
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