Notions of Author

The notion of author as creator had long gone unchallenged by traditional humanists. As John Clifford notes,

"[R]arely is the writer thought of as a site of contradiction, as being written by social or psychological forces that might diminish the clarity of consciousness or singularity of individual intentions. Traditional and expressive rhetorical theory, in fact, unproblematically assumes that the individual writer is free, beyond the contingencies of history and language, to be an authentic and unique consciousness ("The Subject in Discourse" 39).

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