ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -(Foucault also borrows the idea of “the death of the author” from poststructuralist literary critic Roland Barthes; his essay “The Death of the Author” appears in a collection of Barthes’ essays entitled Image-Music-Text.)

Detailed explanation-2: -’ Foucault uses the term ‘author function’ – a concept that replaces the idea of the author as a person, and instead refers to the ‘discourse’ that surrounds an author or body of work.

Detailed explanation-3: -Plato had two theories of art. One may be found in his dialogue The Republic, and seems to be the theory that Plato himself believed. According to this theory, since art imitates physical things, which in turn imitate the Forms, art is always a copy of a copy, and leads us even further from truth and toward illusion.

Detailed explanation-4: -New Historicism upholds the belief that the humanism in a literary text, as shared by the author and characters, is an “ideological illusion, ” and that an author is a non-autonomous individual generating a creative work (Abrams, 221).

Detailed explanation-5: -The task of a literary critic is to explain and attempt to reach a critical understanding of what literary texts mean in terms of their aesthetic, as well as social, political, and cultural statements and suggestions.