Analysis of selected texts through a flower of literary criticism
Rite de Passage in "Samskara", Analysis of the Treatment of Codified History in Gordimer's "July's People" and Coetzee's "Disgrace"
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Analysis of selected texts through a flower of literary criticism
Rite de Passage in "Samskara", Analysis of the Treatment of Codified History in Gordimer's "July's People" and Coetzee's "Disgrace"
About this book
Essay from the year 2021 in the subject Philosophy - General Essays, Eras, language: English, abstract: The French scholar, Roland Barthes says the readers are born at the cost of the death of the authors. In his book of literary criticism titled "The Death of the Author (1967)", Barthes consciously considers a writer a "death" once he or she has published the raw copy of the manuscript, which has been copied as raw as the scribbles of any other writer. When the writers remain dead, the readers (alive) provide light and lives to the author's work by interpreting and re-interpreting the meanings from the texts through the lens of various theories of literary criticism. In literature, the term "Criticism" is understood as an "evaluation" rather than considering it a "mechanism of censorship." This is why the readers reconstruct the lives of the authors through their interpretations (writerly texts) of their works (readerly texts). It is obvious that the readers turn the houses into homes, built by the writers. This book has been written carefully by interpreting the selected articles through the lens of various appropriate theories of literary criticism. The text is much simplified and understandable which would help exemplify the analysis of the texts through the readers' interpretations. The author expects that this book would be essentially useful to a range of readers (both college students and researchers in literature) in their academic endeavors.
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