I. Introduction of course; syllabus; website
II. Who am I?
III. Who are you?
IV. Authorship quiz and discussion
V. Context for authorship debate
A. Studio system
B. Barthes, “The Death of the Author”
1. biography & personality vs. text
2. “intertextuality”
3. intentional fallacy
C. Foucault, “What is an Author?” & the “author function”
1. author function has a history, a place
2. marks relations of power
3. constructs an author
4. St. Jerome’s four criteria for eliminating a work: inferior in quality; conflicts with doctrine; different style; anachronistic
Authorial images