<Table> <Tr> <Td> </Td> <Td> This article includes a list of references, but its sources remain unclear because it has insufficient inline citations . Please help to improve this article by introducing more precise citations. (April 2015) (Learn how and when to remove this template message) </Td> </Tr> </Table> <Tr> <Td> </Td> <Td> This article includes a list of references, but its sources remain unclear because it has insufficient inline citations . Please help to improve this article by introducing more precise citations. (April 2015) (Learn how and when to remove this template message) </Td> </Tr> <P> "The Death of the Author" (French: La mort de l'auteur) is a 1967 essay by the French literary critic and theorist Roland Barthes (1915--80). Barthes' essay argues against traditional literary criticism's practice of incorporating the intentions and biographical context of an author in an interpretation of a text, and instead argues that writing and creator are unrelated . The title is a pun on Le Morte d'Arthur, a 15th - century compilation of smaller Arthurian legend stories, written by Sir Thomas Malory . </P> <P> The essay's first English - language publication was in the American journal Aspen, no . 5--6 in 1967; the French debut was in the magazine Manteia, no . 5 (1968). The essay later appeared in an anthology of Barthes's essays, Image - Music - Text (1977), a book that also included his "From Work To Text". </P>

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