Though the sway of the Author remains powerful (the new criticism has often done no more than consolidate it), it goes without saying that certain writers have long since attempted to loosen it. In France, Mallarme was doubtless the first to see and to foresee in its full extent the necessity to substitute language itself for the person who until then had been supposed to be its owner. For him, for us too, it is language which speaks, not the author
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Newton, K. M. (1997). Roland Barthes: ‘The Death of the Author.’ In Twentieth-Century Literary Theory (pp. 120–123). Macmillan Education UK. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-25934-2_25
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