Study Questions:

1.  How does Barthes date the death of the author?

2.  What is the difference between the writer and the author according to Barthes?


3.  What is the role and function of the reader according to Barthes?


4.  What does Barthes mean by the ‘death’ of the author?

5.  What is the relationship between the author and a text?

6.  What does Barthes mean by saying a text can have many meanings?


7.  Why does Barthes say that language is more important than the author?