Author-Creator and Author-Model: Possible (Dis)Connections between Mikhail Bakhtin and Umberto Eco
Suelio Geraldo Pereira
Abstract:The Death of the Author was an essay published in 1967 by Roland Barthes. Two years later, Michel Foucault pronounced at a conference that the author had not died: he was only in an unceasing process of vanishing. However, for Mikhail Bakhtin and Umberto Eco, the author has always been and will always be alive in the text. On this aspect, Bakhtin and Eco had similar points of view when they sought to understand the essence of the author to whom Barthes referred. Mikhail Bakhtin had conceived of the author-crea… Show more
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