... , an effacement which is inherent in the writer's "very existence" (102). The rise of the notion of writing as ecriture (and the coincident re-evaluation of the status of the author in relation to writing) offers the opportunity to analyze the characteristics which condition its production, rather than its idiosyncratic manifestations. Here Foucault is building on and adapting Roland Barthes's seminal work on the "death of the author" in Barthes's essay of the same name. Unfortunately this "death ... the "voluntary effacement" of self sacrifice, a subversion which provides narrative with...

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