Apologies for my unresolved tenses. I'm off to be an author function
today anyway, which maybe accounts for the confusion. x
On Thu, Sep 2, 2010 at 10:29 AM, Alison Croggon <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> I'm always up for a glass of bubbly.
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> I think the "author function" - which I agree is quite real - is quite
> separate from actual writing. Or maybe that's just survival tactics.
> Which is why I've never quite understand why "how to get published"
> classes should be part of "creative writing" courses.
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> On Thu, Sep 2, 2010 at 9:27 AM, David Latane <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>> --- On Wed, 9/1/10, Alison Croggon <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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>>> *Cough* David, I'm sure you know
>>> this, but it was Barthes who wrote
>>> Death of the Author.
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>> Oops. Foucault's "What Is an Author?" was the essay I was thinking of. Writers had being called an "author function" though they don't mind going to them if the snacks and bevvy are plentiful.
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