ENG280H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Roland Barthes, Rationality, Matriarchy
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Eng280 lecture 7: critical approaches to literature poststructuralism pt. Roland barthes: the death of the author (1967) Romantic psychology? (142: uncomfortable thought from reader about whether author believes what character believes. Issue of wanting apology from author that character"s problematic beliefs are purely based on the times, and not from the real author themselves. We shall never know, for the good reason that writing is the destruction of every voice, or every point of origin. No doubt it has always been that way (142) As soon as a fact is narrated no longer with a view to acting directly on reality but intransitively. [i. e. without purpose], this disconnection occurs, the voice loses its origin, the author enters into his own death, writing begins (142) Sense of this phenomenon, however, has varied; in ethnographic societies the responsibility for a narrative is never assumed by a person/author but by a mediator, shaman or relator whose.
