Robert Bernard Barthes's The Death Of The Author

Composers of texts present a biased attitude to the events, personalities or situations represented. In various texts such as Shakespeare’s “Julius Caesar” and Leunig’s cartoon “Yet another picture with the wrong caption”, the composers bias is evident even though conflicting perspectives towards the personality are presented.

Most people consider family to be the people that are related to them by blood or brought together by marriage. The truth is that families can at times be complicated and they may fight, but in the end they stick together through thick and thin,sunshine or rain. In A Death in the Family James Agee uses both literary devices and elements to talk about his theme about how even after all the events that transpired they have remained a unified family with a fortified front.

In the article “Intertextuality and the Discourse Community” James Porter points out to the audience that there is no original piece or writing. Porter’s article addresses the concept of plagiarizing. He does not oppose that plagiarizing is wrong, rather he claims that it is inevitable. Porter argues that in all pieces of writing are intertexual. Intertexuality is the idea that all writings have traces and ideas from other past text. Intertextuality is important to completely understand a piece of writing.

Writing is a powerful tool for communication and connection. As an extension and expression of the mind, writing is as much about the mental processes of the author as it is about the final marks laid to paper. As we write, we hold in mind our own thoughts on the work, anticipate the reader’s thoughts, and think both in concrete and abstract ways in order to accomplish the task at hand. Whether an academic research paper, a novel, or text message to friends, writing seeks to engage, persuade, or impress concepts upon an audience. Like language and other art forms in general, the practice of writing is ever-evolving and is subject to cultural and contextual influence, expectations, and conventions. Each writer holds a theory

Part One: Compare and contrast this persona of Death with the familiar personification of the Grim Reaper. How is Death from The Book Thief like the Grim Reaper, and how is he significantly different?

     Poetry is a form of Logos. Gorgias defines poetry as speech in meter. Since speech causes many things like he explained before, then poetry must be speech in meter because it can cause the listener to “shudder in terror, shed tears in pity, and yearn with sad longing” (Freeman). Through this poetry, the hearer’s soul will begin to feel the same way (82B119).

When an author writes a book he has a message that he is trying to get across to

In this article, Bartholomae talks about writers and how they need “invent the university” by imitating the particular language their readers use. He makes strong points on how and why writers need to do this. You must do it by connecting your own point of few to the view of your audience, who is reading your work.

How Kristin Died is the case study that sparked my interested. The author of this case was Kristin father himself. He wrote this story in order to shine the light on what happened to his daughter, the role that our system played in and all the events leading to the death of his daughter. This story is no happy ending, and what happened to Kristin was horrifying. Through the author’s writing we discover the various ways that our system let Kristin down, and more importantly how the system can continue to lead other individuals to their death.

Any word spoken or written in any shape or form carries a strong influential power. However, when they are written, they have the opportunity to be revised again and again until perfection is met in the eyes of the writer. A writer desires to communicate with its readers and impart an influential piece of knowledge. The monster within the book Frankenstein could have been persuaded into another course of life had his literature been a different selection. Sorrows of Werter focusses on the importance of emotion and romance in one’s life.

In the fourth section in the essay Richard is speaking of Rene Descartes’s “Meditations on the first philosophy.” Rene starts with another bleak outlook on writing. He asks the question “why bother reading and writing when the world is so obviously going to

Suggesting that it is only up to the poets on mind is basically suggesting that it is only up to the creator’s interpretation or the audience interpretation. That no matter what it only comes down to the

Moreover, these complications even stem over to Henry’s guilt about the war. After arriving in Switzerland, Henry states, “The war seemed as far away as the football games of some one else’s college. But I knew from the papers that they were still fighting in the mountains because the snow would not come” (FTA, 291). Even in Switzerland, Henry cannot escape hearing about the war. While when he escapes the war, Henry cannot escape the guilt of deserting his friends, showing that his inner truth is not that simple. Even his inner meaning from existentialism has complications. With this idea, Friedrich Nietzsche states, “‘All truth is simple.’ Is that not doubly a lie?” This dichotomy between the simple and the complicated demonstrates nihilism’s

Throughout many different mediums such as literature and music there have been many controversial pieces written in regards to the true meaning and purpose of authorship. Several French philosophers such as Roland Barthes and Michel Foucault have written essays on the purpose of authorship. Roland Barthes, writer of “The Death of the Author”, has a strong belief in the removal of the author from a piece. Barthes believed that once a book has been written there is no more author but instead a scriptor and text which are both born simultaneously. Meaning that the text is a living tissue for the scriptor(reader) to interpret for themselves, leaving a text with multiple meanings dependent on a scriptors interpretation. On the other hand, French philosopher, Michel Foucault believed that the author is a key aspect to a written work. He believed that without an author a work would have no true meaning in essence leaving everything up for debate which ultimately results in confusion. Foucault also believed that removing the author from a text serves no purpose and as such, should not be done. Similarly, an author is a very important aspect in music as well because musicians are able to bridge gaps between them and their listeners through lyricism. Artists are able to do this by incorporating narratives in their music allowing them to narrate their lives which may include hardships and difficulties that they have gone through, which allows for connections to be made between the author and a listener who has gone through the same experiences. For example, artists such as 21 Savage speak about gang violence and poverty in their music which allows them to shed light on such issues in order to raise public awareness.

background in assessing the author on the other hand, which he considered "tyrannical". According to Barthes' statement from the essay "History or Literature?" in on Racine, proves the above - mentioned argument, in which he initially assumed that text is a "grave" of author when text came out, then the reader was born which is also stated in the "the Death of the Author", then Barthes criticised that old critic considered author "genius" meaning that the creator is so sophisticated. He also signified another fact about classic thinkers that they disregarded the history of the writer which left nothing to the writer since history shaped gracious literary aspect of the writer, if they are emptied from them, then writer will stay just as sculptor which can ultimately be defined as a valueless object, "the