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The short essay, The Death of the Author by Roland Barthes, was published in 1967. This essay offered new insight on the relationship between the author and reader. Barthes states that the death of the Author must be for the birth of the reader. The purpose and meaning of a text is not something that is placed in the text by the author and left for the reader to “decode,” but the meaning of a text is something that begins and ends with the reader. Here, we discus this, along with other key concepts found in the essay.

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