Post-structuralism and Authors
Post-structuralists challenge traditional notions of authorship by challenging the author's control over the text. For example, reader-response critics would argue that what readers bring to a text has as much to do with how a reader interprets a text as what the author writes. Similarly, social constructionists argue that authors themselves are written by their cultures; authorship is a social construct and is granted by certain communities (academic, professional, etc.) as Foucault has argued.
What is an Author 
Author as Authority
Implications of Postmodernism
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