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How do the concepts of the role of the author differ considering the works of Foucault and Barthes? ...
Though Foucault similarly identifies the importance of an author function, in contrast to Barthes he focuses upon the way in which an audience is influenced by Authors own points of view. ... Foucault notes how this idea is established through the very name of an Author "A name can group together a number of texts and thus differentiate them from others. ...
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Foucault notes here how a reader knows what to expect from a text depending upon
the Authors name, the writer himself. ... Foucault addresses the concept of discourse. ... Therefore Foucault comments on the control of authorship and how it is greatly undermined depending upon the discourse their work is read in "Discourse that possesses an Author’s name is not to be immediately consumed and forgotten; neither is it accorded the momentary attention given to ordinary, fleeting words. ... Foucault notes with the means of discourse, that an Authors race and sex are important when considering their texts. ... Foucault notes that in the past an Authors opinion was taken for facevalue, where as in today’s increasingly critical society the need to know all about
an Authors identity is most prodominent“Even within our civilization, the same types of texts have not always required authors; there was a time when those texts which we now call ‘literary’ (stories, folk tales, epics, and tragedies) were accepted, circulated and valorized without any question about the identity of their author”(1981,p 285). ...
Western Values in particular are questioned here, as Foucault notes that an Author was once taken for face value. ... Foucault is far less harsh in his conclusion on the concept of authorship. ... Where as Foucault uses the concept of discourse as a means to understand an authors opinion, therefore believing that the Authors own message is as important as the readers own perceptions.
Approximate Word count = 1514
Approximate Pages = 6.1
(250 words per page double spaced)
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