Is death of the author just an excuse for being lazy and ignorant?

>>9127237
Yes, one hundred percent, without a doubt, absolutely.

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>>9127237
No but it makes the fatal mistake of assuming that we experience the author through the medium of the text, when we in fact experience the text through the medium of the author

>>9127237
Have you actually read the article and other relevant articles, OP? Or are you just here to be lazy and ignorant?

>>9127237
>>9127248

TAKE THE FUCKING REDPILL

DEATH OF THE AUTHOR IS FRENCH NONSENSE MEANT TO DISCREDIT WHITE AUTHORS

The essay is like five pages long. Just read it.

>>9127242
>it makes the fatal mistake of assuming that we experience the author through the medium of the text
You've made the fatal mistake of assuming people won't realise you're full of shit and haven't read the essay

>>9127242
>we in fact experience the text through the medium of the author
Are you sharing your basement with Pynchon or something?

Death of the author is useful to understand Foucault's author function, which is actually more practical in terms of how we interpret texts.


Also new criticism is one perfectly valid way of reading texts among several equally valid ways.

It's an excuse to be a pretentious asshat.