# death of the author

> English word · Noun

## Definitions
1. A technique of literary analysis that disregards authorial intent, focusing only on the text.

## Etymology
Calque of French la mort de l'auteur, the title of a 1967 essay by the French literary critic and theorist Roland Barthes (1915–1980).

## Source
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