Agency and the Death of the Author: A Partial Defense of Modernism

Abstract

in the late 1970s the author died?or maybe just dissolved into the semiosis of intertextuality. The story has its weak and strong versions. The strong version asserts that no author was there in the first place?only an ideology of authorship, an inscription of the cultural practices and social institutions that organize and regulate the production of writing. This author-effect is written, as it were, into the public record by, for example, the attribution of forms of writing to their composers, copyright

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