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noun
A technique of literary analysis that disregards authorial intent, focusing only on the text.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: uncountable
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History
Calque of French la mort de l'auteur, the title of a 1967 essay by the French literary critic and theorist Roland Barthes (1915–1980).
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