Representation in Self Portraiture This is a blog to keep track of my dissertation research and to help develop ideas in an organised manner.

[Attempted]
The Death and Return of the Author
Criticism and Subjectivity in Barthes, Foucault and Derrida
Seán Burke
Edinburgh University Press

Useful chapters list:

-Introduction: A prehistory of the Death of the Author p8
- 1. the birth of the reader p20
- What (and who)is an Author? p89
- Subjectivities
-Misread Intentions
-Authors or absence
-doubling the text:intention and its other
 -conclusion: critic and Author
-Critic and author?
-Epilogue?

Text seems very difficult to read... Going to see if I can have a secondary text ON this otherwise I may just skip it and focus on reader-response to solve my dilemma....






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