i am familiar with all of these strains. by appealing to the net i am merely suggesting we can discuss what procedures are involved in each of the textual interpretations people have been offering. it's not that i don't know WHAT Barthes wrote or to what Gloria Monti was referring, it's just that no-one has been able to convince me of the logical consistency of these arguments. i hope we can discuss..... jim On Wed, 23 Feb 1994, DSK wrote: > For a discussion of this theme see Roland Barthes's "The Death of the Author" > in IMAGE MUSIC TEXT and Foucault's response "What is an Author?" in > LANGUAGE, COUNTER-MEMORY, PRACTICE. dsk > > That it is an inaccessible communication, to plunge into this contradiction > is also a pleasure" (Thomas Mann, DOCTOR FAUSTUS). >