Death of the author and murder of the story

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Roland Barthes famously talked about “the death of the author”.  By this he meant that we shouldn’t waste our time attempting to work out and authors intention when writing.  The author’s relationship to the text ends as soon as they have written it. S/he is to all intents and purposes dead to his work and… Continue reading Death of the author and murder of the story