the death of the author

The themes of authors, author-functions, and audiences have been pivotal for the last part of the class. What is an authoras described by Roland Barthes and Michel Foucaultand what is the controversy surrounding the death of the author? Along with discussing these, engage the idea of authorship in Buddhist communities. For this, you might draw on Sara McClintocks discussions of the Buddhas omniscience in Omniscience and the Rhetoric of Reason, or her discussion of ntarakita and Kamalala in that same text. You might also discuss Schaeffers treatment of Saraha as an author

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