Re: theoretically speaking

Jim--

I think it's useful and productive to link death-of-the-author thinking
with poststructuralism in general and with Derrida in particular.
Authors are seen by poststructuralists (of which Barthes is one, in many
ways) as metacenters that govern and limit meanings of texts. Authors
are thus prime targets of decentering gestures characteristic of
poststructuralism. Perhaps a simplification on several levels, but the
connection is fairly obvious.

James Rovira wrote:

> [...] It's not a Derridean
> or even relativist move. They just saw the author as more of a moving
> target than the actual words on the page.
 

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Il n'y a pas de hors texte,
Matt
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