Author Cannot Die! A Critical Evaluation of Ronald Barthes' Essay The Death of the Author
The status of the Author's identity in Literary Criticism regarding the ownership of meaning created in a text is still unresolved debate. Postmodern critics like Barthes and Foucault attribute no importance to the author in the matter of interpretation of his own literary work. The present research has focused on highlighting the significance of the existence of the Author for a comprehensive understanding of the text and proposed the notion of the coexistence of the Author and the Reader in order to retain the privilege of the Author as well as to circumvent misleading interpretations on the part of the readers by aligning his interpretation with the thought of the author. The study concludes that it is the author who directs readers' understanding of the text and adds to their knowledge and that the readers cannot be left alone to stagger between their indecisive interpretations of a text.
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Absence, Author, Literary Criticism, Identity, Roland Barthes, Meaning, Reader
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(1) Ali Haider
Principal, Jinnah College of Education, Gujrat, Punjab, Pakistan.
(2) Muhammad Akbar Khan
Associate Professor, Department of Languages, The University of Chenab, Gujrat, Punjab, Pakistan.
(3) Iram Sattar
Lecturer, Punjab College, Sambrial, Punjab, Pakistan.
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APA : Haider, A., Khan, M. A., & Sattar, I. (2023). Author Cannot Die! A Critical Evaluation of Ronald Barthes' Essay The Death of the Author. Global Educational Studies Review, VIII(II), 433-443. https://doi.org/10.31703/gesr.2023(VIII-II).39
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CHICAGO : Haider, Ali, Muhammad Akbar Khan, and Iram Sattar. 2023. "Author Cannot Die! A Critical Evaluation of Ronald Barthes' Essay The Death of the Author." Global Educational Studies Review, VIII (II): 433-443 doi: 10.31703/gesr.2023(VIII-II).39
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HARVARD : HAIDER, A., KHAN, M. A. & SATTAR, I. 2023. Author Cannot Die! A Critical Evaluation of Ronald Barthes' Essay The Death of the Author. Global Educational Studies Review, VIII, 433-443.
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MHRA : Haider, Ali, Muhammad Akbar Khan, and Iram Sattar. 2023. "Author Cannot Die! A Critical Evaluation of Ronald Barthes' Essay The Death of the Author." Global Educational Studies Review, VIII: 433-443
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MLA : Haider, Ali, Muhammad Akbar Khan, and Iram Sattar. "Author Cannot Die! A Critical Evaluation of Ronald Barthes' Essay The Death of the Author." Global Educational Studies Review, VIII.II (2023): 433-443 Print.
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OXFORD : Haider, Ali, Khan, Muhammad Akbar, and Sattar, Iram (2023), "Author Cannot Die! A Critical Evaluation of Ronald Barthes' Essay The Death of the Author", Global Educational Studies Review, VIII (II), 433-443
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TURABIAN : Haider, Ali, Muhammad Akbar Khan, and Iram Sattar. "Author Cannot Die! A Critical Evaluation of Ronald Barthes' Essay The Death of the Author." Global Educational Studies Review VIII, no. II (2023): 433-443. https://doi.org/10.31703/gesr.2023(VIII-II).39