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This is the first 1,000 characters of 650 words (2.6 pages) in the essay titled The role of the author A central argument in contemporary literary criticism remains to be the role of the author. Many theories approach a text with the intention of completely disregarding the author and solely analyzing the text as it exists. However, there are other theories which see the author as an element of larger consquence. The contribution of the individual to the meaning of a text may alter the affect entirely as “Each individual is different, each possesses a unique subjectivity; yet also, paradoxically, each shares a common human nature,” (rice and waugh 123). Subjectivity or the personality added by the author to a work is discussed by Julia Kristeva in the piece, “ A Question of Subjectivity.” In this interview, Kristeva approaches the issue of the ‘subject’ with respect to psychoanalysis. In her study Kristeva links psychosis to literature throught various channels such as the limits of language, the maternal body and the relationship between suffering and creativity. Each of these links can be applied to the sonnets written by Shakespeare thereby providing insight into the author and the text.The relationship between psychoanalyisis of the ‘subject’ and literature may not be one that is obvious to most people. Kristeva explains that literature exists at the “limits of language; the moments where language breaks up in phychosis.” Therefore the interpretation of one’s speech “presupposes that you apply yourself to the meaning of what they say.” The thoughts of the aut... |
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Keywords: contemporary literary criticism, paradoxically, subjectivity, literature, julia kristeva, limits of language, sonnet 147, phychosis, relationship, crucial, language breaks, linguistic signs, central argument, maternal body, maddness, waugh, psychoanalysis, psychosis, throught, sonnets