Elena Agathokleous 
Roland Barthes and Michel Foucault on the subject of the Author 

Essay from the year 2018 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies – Literature, grade: A, , language: English, abstract: The problem of authorship was one that caused many debates in the literary, intellectual cycles. The concept of author as well as the author’s contribution and effect in a work has been one that changed through time.Roland Barthes and Michel Foucault were both acclaimed thinkers that dealt with the matter of the author, searching in a rather philosophical way the role of the author in the creation, perception and meaning generation of a text. They both gave strong views on the subject of the author in terms of who the author is, what role the author has in the creation of a work and how much of the author’s self is in the work itself.