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Exploring Author-Reader Dynamics

The document explores the nature of the author-reader relationship and how it is defined by time. It discusses how an author only exists when writing and a reader only exists when reading, as a text only comes into being through the act of reading. It also examines how reading and writing are processes, and how the author produces a work but is not the sole determinant of a text's meaning, which can be interpreted differently depending on the reader and is limited by the text itself.

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Exploring Author-Reader Dynamics

The document explores the nature of the author-reader relationship and how it is defined by time. It discusses how an author only exists when writing and a reader only exists when reading, as a text only comes into being through the act of reading. It also examines how reading and writing are processes, and how the author produces a work but is not the sole determinant of a text's meaning, which can be interpreted differently depending on the reader and is limited by the text itself.

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What is an author?

Aim of essay -explore nature of author-reader relation -define author-work relation -define reading and writing -highlight importance of time Defining the role of the author Author function Author is only author when writing Reader is only reader when writing Text only exists when read

Defining the role of the reader Reading and writing as processes

The person who wrote the work The hand Producer of work Not father Death of the author is birth of reader Medium between too much emphasis on authorship and too much emphasis on readership Authority and authenticity Authorial intention does not dictate interpretation of text AST there is a limit within which text can be interpreted. Differentiation of work and text Signifier and signified Reading as performative action not consumptive Writing as process of combining sources in unique way Text as a weaved network of disconnections and overlapping Text contained in system of language

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