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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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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I see what you're getting at. The conflation of "author" and "writer" is slippery there in terms of obscuring the original intent of the quote.
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Oh hi Mr. Tolkien.
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This exactly! The New Critical intentional fallacy claims that texts are autonomous from their authorial context. Barthes's death of the author frames writers as existing in society—in discourse—at an almost mechanistic point where previous texts collide+cohere toward a new work.
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