Sorry, the quoted sentence was of course from Alison, not me.
I am posting again Alison's comments on Barthes's 'old chestnut', as she
calls The death of the Author. (EP) NB>
>On Sat, 3 Jan 2004 13:51:10 +1100, Alison Croggon
><[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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>>At 1:36 AM +0000 3/1/04, Erminia Passannanti wrote:
> I fail to see how a discussion of a
>>limited part of Barthes' thought, that tired old chestnut the "death
>>of the author", will inaugurate your new era of "originality", since
>>these things have been hashed to tepid mush in the past three
>>decades. Ho hum.
>>
>>Back to some real work.
>>
>>A
>>--
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>Alison, every year at leats 10 new main critical studies are produced,
>dealing with essential revisions of Barthes's ideas (or of whicever critic
>or philosopher works in this interactive field), notions which are at the
>very heart of contemporary disputes in the field of criticism. It is rather
>distressing your statement this morning comparing literary theories
>to 'tired chestnuts', whose fruits, once dry, can be turned into the basic
>elements for the daily pies you bake downthere.
>ep
>erminia
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