completely irrelevant...

yesterday we discussed “the death of the author”...

Barthes suggests that we should not take we know about the author and then try and find connections within the text... this is considered a flawed approach and by doing so it creates limitations.. most often texts are a lot more than just what the author is about... and sometimes it actually has nothing to do with the author at all... Barthes says to consider the author dead, and what’s left is language itself...

i found this to be an interesting argument considering i am currently learning the many ways to connect the author within his/hers texts in another one of my English courses. over the past 3 weeks i have been given all the important details of the authors life and from here have been told to connect them to the text. however, this task seemed difficult at times as i found myself struggling to find any connection at all. Bathes texts offers me an answer as to why i this may be happening..

this then makes me question... is the information that is being connected to the authors life always accurate? ... have people taken false information about the author to make this connection more clear?... how do we know what is true and what is not?... do we just assume because we are told it does?... to avoid such question the answer seems simple to me.... consider the author dead..


as for my other English class... i’ll continue to make such connections as asked... even though i feel it is completely irrelevant...