Roland Barthes's 'Death of the Author,' Explained

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In this video, I introduce Roland Barthes's essay "The Death of the Author" (1967). First, I look at the question of authorial intention, and I compare Barthes's position on authorial intention to Monroe C. Beardsley and William K. Wimsatt's essay "The Intentional Fallacy" (1947). Then, I examine one of the major ways in each Barthes's text diverges from this previous text by looking at the role that structuralism plays in his argument.

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its a funny little thing of pedagogy that in order to explain "death of the author" we often attempt to explain, specifically, barthes' intentions with respect to the text, what barthes would approve of, etc

jq

funny that there is a video explaining the intent of an author who doesn't think the intent of an author matters at all

jmac

Thanks a lot. I was suppossed to contemplate on this article for an master class and ur video helped a lot.

sibelsancar

Love it.. so easy and so pleasing too. Things are complicated whenever I try to understand how Roland Barthes is different from New Criticism, but you made it easy.

kumarikritiraj