LITERATURE QUESTIONS
CULTURAL AND LITERARY IN MODERNITY
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Question
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According to Dr. Dino Felluga’s “General Introduction to Postmodernism, ” Roland Barthes, in his work “The Death of the Author, ” argues which of the following points?
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“The modern writer (scriptor) is born simultaneously with his text.”
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“Once the Author is gone, the claim to “decipher” a text is quite simple.”
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“A text never consists of multiple writings, it is always the product of a monolithic culture.”
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Both A and B
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Explanation:
Detailed explanation-1: -The death of the Author is the inability to create, produce, or discover any text or idea. The author is a “scriptor” who simply collects preexisting quotations. He is not able to create or decide the meaning of his work. The task of meaning falls “in the destination”-the reader.
Detailed explanation-2: -For Roland Barthes the ‘death of the author’ is the ‘birth of the reader’. By this, Barthes is saying that the author is not the authoritative figure of the text and that the meaning of the text does not reside in the author’s intent, but in the reader’s own individual interpretation.
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