author

collective noun

novel writing

writing

naming

note-taking

notebook

is a certain functional principle by which, in our culture, one limits, excludes and chooses. The author is therefore the ideological figure by which one marks the manner in which we fear the proliferation of meaning.

The Author is a certain functional principle by which, in our culture, one limits, excludes and chooses: ( ) The author is therefore the ideological figure by which one marks the manner in which we fear the proliferation of meaning'.

is a historical invention which, in contrast to the anonymous writer, acted to limit and constrain meaning, linking it in certain ways to discourses of rationality, responsibility, punishment, and transgression.

is a projection, in terms always more or less psychological, of our way of handling texts: In the comparisons we make, the traits we extract as pertinent, the continuities we assign, or the exclusions we practice.

[Author-function] results from a complex operation whose purpose is to construct the rational entity we call an author. Undoubtedly, this construction is assigned a 'realistic' dimension as we speak of an individual's 'profundity' or 'creative' power, his intentions or the original inspiration manifested in writing. Nevertheless, these aspect of an individual, which we designate as an author (or which comprise an individual as an author), are projections, in terms always more or less psychological, of our way of handling texts: in the comparisons we make, the traits we extract as pertinent, the continuities we assign, or the exclusions we practice' (Foucault 'Author function')

is an ideological product... the ideological figure by which one marks the manner in which we fear the proliferation of meaning.

One can say that the author is an ideological product, since we represent him as the opposite of his historically real function. (When a historically given function is represented in a figure that inverts it, one has an ideological production.) The author is therefore the ideological figure by which one marks the manner in which we fear the proliferation of meaning. Michel Foucault

is an originator. As such, it can be said that there are few authors among writers.

How many authors are there among writers' Author means originator. (Friedrich Von Schlegel)

is effectively anonymous and the author function effectively disappears in the text.

For Foucault, the text is an effect of the discourse of the social/temporal origins of its production... and, therefore, the author is effectively anonymous and the author function effectively disappears.

is either falling star (having a momentary effect), a planet (having a much longer duration) or a fixed star (unchangeable, possessing his own light, and working for all time).

Authors may be divided into falling stars, planets, and fixed stars: the first have a momentary effect... the second have a much longer duration... but the third are unchangeable, possess their own light, and work for all time. Arthur Schopenhauer

Who learns most from a good book is the author. (Jose Bergamin)

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