{"id":6992,"date":"2006-07-02T22:41:02","date_gmt":"2006-07-02T22:41:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.earthwidemoth.com\/blog\/2006\/07\/02\/barthes-the-dea\/"},"modified":"2006-07-02T22:41:02","modified_gmt":"2006-07-02T22:41:02","slug":"barthes-the-dea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.earthwidemoth.com\/blog\/2006\/07\/02\/barthes-the-dea\/","title":{"rendered":"Barthes, &#8220;The Death of the Author&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">\u23f3 Approximate reading time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> 2<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">mins<\/span><\/span>\n<p style=\"text-indent: -0.5in; margin-left: 0.5in; margin-bottom: 0in\">Barthes,<br \/>\n          Roland. &quot;The Death of the Author.&quot; <i>Image-Music-Text<\/i>.<br \/>\n          Trans. Stephen Heath. New York: Hill and Wang, 1977. 142-148.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Barthes advances several important (now &quot;given&quot;) theoretical maneuvers in<br \/>\ndefining writing as &quot;performative,&quot; in destabilizing the role of intentionality<br \/>\nin reading, and in involving the reader as an equal (if unknowable) participant<br \/>\nin the text&#8217;s performance. Skeptics will counter that Barthes comes on too<br \/>\nstrong, that he means that the author gives up all control to the reader.<br \/>\nBut this is simply a theoretical project meant to relax and thereby introduce a<br \/>\ndegree of play in the taken-by-some-to-be-exactable relationship between<br \/>\nauthorship and the (meaningful) life of a text in its multiple, unpredictable<br \/>\nperformances. I take Barthes to be urging us to regard the reader as a<br \/>\nlegitimate participant in textuality and meaning, thereby opening a space for<br \/>\ninterpretation to contend with meaning rendered absolute or rigidified by the<br \/>\nnod of the author (as an increasingly celebrated figure). <\/p>\n<p>&quot;Thus is revealed the total existence of writing: a text is made of multiple<br \/>\nwritings, drawn from many cultures and entering into mutual relations of<br \/>\ndialogue, parody, contestation, but there is one place where this multiplicity<br \/>\nis focused and that place is the reader, not, as was hiterto said, the author&quot;<br \/>\n(148). This changes the presumed controls, introducing the aliveness of a text<br \/>\nand its terms as involving trajectories that we cannot always easily anticipate<br \/>\nor constrain, though this doesn&#8217;t necessarily mean that as writers, we shouldn&#8217;t<br \/>\ntry, within reason, to do so or to make what we do readable.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;Once the Author is removed, the claim to decipher a text becomes quite<br \/>\nfutile&quot; (147). If the project of classical literary criticism was to stake<br \/>\nout a superior (that is, intention-matching) reading, Barthes instead argues for<br \/>\nsomething more democratic, participatory and reader-centered. This also matches<br \/>\nwith Barthes antithesis; he &quot;refus[es] to assign a &#8216;secret,&#8217; ultimate meaning,<br \/>\nto the text&quot; (147). <\/p>\n<p>&quot;The text is a tissue of quotations drawn from the innumerable centres of<br \/>\nculture&quot; (146). A variation of intertextuality and a theory of writing as<br \/>\na tissue-like aggregation of various, contending fibers.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;For him, for us too, it is language which speaks, not the author; to write<br \/>\nis, through a prerequisite impersonality (not at all to be confused with the<br \/>\ncastrating objectivity of the realist novelist), to reach that point where only<br \/>\nlanguage acts, &#8216;performs&#8217; and not &#8216;me&#8217;&quot; (143).<\/p>\n<p>&quot;Writing is that neutral, composite, oblique space where our subject slips<br \/>\naway, the negative where all identity is lost, starting with the very identity<br \/>\nof the body writing&quot; (142). ^Consider this alongside Ong&#8217;s notion of<br \/>\ndistance and also Barthes&#8217; mention of &quot;distancing&quot; (145).<\/p>\n<p>&quot;Linguistically, the author is never more than the instance writing, just as<br \/>\n<i>I<\/i> is nothing other than the instance saying <i>I<\/i>: language knows a<br \/>\n&#8216;subject&#8217;, not a &#8216;person&#8217;, and this subject, empty outside of the very<br \/>\nenunciation which defines it, suffices to make language &#8216;hold together&#8217;,<br \/>\nsuffices, that is to say, to exhaust it&quot; (145).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">\u23f3 Approximate reading time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> 2<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">mins<\/span><\/span>Barthes, Roland. &quot;The Death of the Author.&quot; Image-Music-Text. 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