The Emergent Author: Affective Response to a Friend of a "Very Special, Artificial Kind".

The article discusses the internal struggle between embracing the death of the author and the place of language in textual analysis. Topics discussed include the projection of the author onto the text by the readers impacting the reception of the work as part of the complex relationship between the...

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Publicado en:Colloquy: Text Theory Critique no. 29; pp. 4 - 29
Autor principal: Blake, Megan
Formato: Artículo
Publicado: Monash University, Faculty of Arts Jul2015
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Sumario:The article discusses the internal struggle between embracing the death of the author and the place of language in textual analysis. Topics discussed include the projection of the author onto the text by the readers impacting the reception of the work as part of the complex relationship between the readers and their artificial friend. Also mentioned are the value of examining the emergent author as well as French literary critic Michel Proust's hymn to art as the sole medium of multiple worlds.