How and why might the 'death of the author' be taken to mean the 'birth of the reader'?
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Barthes essay in 1977 claimed that authorial interpretation was insignificant in finding meaning from any literary text, and the role of the reader was thus more important in interpreting a meaning. This brings up questions surrounding how much authorial intent is the foremost and only meaning a text can have, and then how much knowledge do we need of an author in order to interpret this intent, or whether readers differing meanings should be focused on …
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…'Have you Eaten Yet? The Reader in A Modest Proposal', Studies In English Literature 1500-1900, Vol.36, Iss.3 (1996), 603-802. Swift, Jonathon, 'A Modest Proposal', The Norton Anthology Of English Literature Volume I Ed. M. H. Abrams, New York & London: W. W Norton & Company Ltd. (2000) 2364-2367. Wimatt Jr. W. K. & Beardsley, Monroe C. 'The Intentional Fallacy', Authorship: From Plato to postmodern: A Reader, Ed. Sean Burke, Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, (1995) 90-100.
…'Have you Eaten Yet? The Reader in A Modest Proposal', Studies In English Literature 1500-1900, Vol.36, Iss.3 (1996), 603-802. Swift, Jonathon, 'A Modest Proposal', The Norton Anthology Of English Literature Volume I Ed. M. H. Abrams, New York & London: W. W Norton & Company Ltd. (2000) 2364-2367. Wimatt Jr. W. K. & Beardsley, Monroe C. 'The Intentional Fallacy', Authorship: From Plato to postmodern: A Reader, Ed. Sean Burke, Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, (1995) 90-100.
