Post-structuralist attitudes to authorship as expressed by Roland Barthes, Jacques Derrida, Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, and Gayati Chakravorty Spivak with particular

For thirty years the "death of the author" has been a familiar poststructuralist slogan in literary theory, widely understood and much debated as a dismissal of

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Essays on semiology

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