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Question for Writing / Group Discussion: Consider some part of the following questions in light of your Toolbox readings. Then write a page on your thoughts before we discuss them. |
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an awareness of the power (authority) of the writer? Do we sense him
controlling the meaning we make of the text? What signs do you see that his
authority might be in question (and thus in need of affirming)? When the
Toolbox introduces the ideas of the "author function" and "the
death of the author," they are proposed as ways of escaping the limits
imposed by even the idea of an author behind a text. How might we think
differently about The Narrative if we saw it as a fiction, rather
than a book from the life of its author? Would such questioning of the
"author" have been welcome in the 19th-century? Are such questionings
welcome now? What are the political implications?
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