The Genealogy of Genius
<p>In 1967, French literary theorist Roland Barthes (1915–1980) published his highly influential essay, “The Death of the Author”. In it, Barthes attempts to free literary analysis from the pernicious belief that the author gets to decide what their work means. Interpretation — Barthes says — is sovereign.</p>
<p>Through this Copernican shift from author-centrism to reader-centrism, Barthes seeks to overthrow the old aesthetic model: genius, traditions, objective standards of beauty, etc. His goal was to emancipate the reader.</p>
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