Author

The word author has several meanings:

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• The author of a book, story, article or the like, is the person who has written it (or is writing it). This can be short or long, fiction or nonfiction, poetry or prose, technical or literature; in particular it is a profession (doing this for pay).
• The Author Function in literary theory is the writer of a work as seen by the reader. Each work by the same author has a separate Author Function, and each work by numerous or unknown authors has a single distinct Author Function.
• An author is someone who originates or causes or initiates something.
• To author is to generate or develop an educational resource
• The same as definition number 1, but applied to music. The sole fact of creating a sequence of notes, even if they are not written on paper, might give someone the title of author of a melody, chords sequence, arrangement, etc.
• In biology, the author of the scientific name of a taxon is the person or team who first makes the name available by publication and description.
• In Sprite Comics, the term "Author" is

A putative author is the author of a work as defined by the work rather than the real author. An example is The Dice Man, supposedly written by Luke Rhinehart, who is in fact a fictional character in the book.

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The phrase "Death of the Author" was popularized by Roland Barthes in his 1968 essay of the same name. "The Death of the Author" is associated with critical theory. It is used to convey the idea that texts have meaning and an independent existence outside that intended by the author, depending on the context and reader.

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The Dice Man: The Dice Man was published in 1971 by George Cockcroft under the pen name Luke Rhinehart. It had the confident subheader, "This book can change your life". It quickly became a cult classic, as people read it and passed it around. Some in authority saw it as subversive, reflecting the mood of the ear...

Luke Rhinehart: Luke Rhinehart is the pen name of the author George Cockcroft (see that entry for a biography). Luke Rhinehart is also a character in some of Cockcroft's books. In this article "George Cockcroft" refers to the author, while "Luke Rhinehart" refers to the character....

Death of the Author: Death of the author is a theory proposed by French literary critic Roland Barthes. It states that the intentions of the author are meaningless to the interpretation of a text. According to this theory, any given text consists not of one authorial voice but of multiple genres, outside influences, su...




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