English Explanatory Dictionary

death of the author

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A technique of literary analysis that disregards authorial intent, focusing only on the text.

Word forms

death of the author

Etymology

Calque of French la mort de l'auteur, the title of a 1967 essay by the French literary critic and theorist Roland Barthes (1915–1980).

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