Laureen Zanotti » Foucault http://laureenzanotti.name A blog about writing and art Tue, 17 Aug 2010 16:20:57 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 Summary of Foucault’s “What is an Author?” http://laureenzanotti.name/summary-of-foucaults-what-is-an-author/ http://laureenzanotti.name/summary-of-foucaults-what-is-an-author/#comments Sat, 04 Oct 2008 07:02:56 +0000 Laureen http://laureenzanotti.name/?p=87 In “What is an Author”, Michel Foucault addresses the relationship between author and text. In addition, he wants to focus on the manner in which the text points to the author-“figure”. Foucault acts on the suggestion once made by Beckett. The latter asked, “What does it matter who is speaking?” Foucault concludes that this exclamation bears the essential ethical principles of “écriture”-meaning contemporary writing.

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