25 mars 2022
https://www.openedition.org/12554 , info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
Mélanie Joseph-Vilain et al., « Introduction », Presses universitaires de la Méditerranée, ID : 10.4000/books.pulm.8668
As Antoine Compagnon suggests in his enlightening course on ‘the author’, both the history of literary criticism and the history of literature can be understood and read in the light of how the authorial presence was perceived. The twentieth century shifted from a predominantly biographical perspective, following Gustave Lanson’s prescriptions, to a radically non-biographical perspective described by Roland Barthes as ‘the death of the author’. Within such a perspective, which developed in th...