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To give a text an Author is to impose a limit on that text... when the Author has been found, the text is 'explained' -- victory to the critic. Hence there is no surprise in the fact that, historically, the reign of the Author has also been that of the Critic.
-- Roland Barthes. Image-Music-Text. New York: Hill and Wang. (1977). pp.142-148.
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