Michael Hanson C

Title: Archangel 

Once the Author Authority is removed, the claim to decipher a text city becomes quite futile. To give a text city an Author Authority is to impose a limit on that text city, to furnish it with a final signified, to close the writing place. Such a conception suits criticism power very well, the latter then allotting itself the important task of discovering the Author Authority (or its hypostases: society, history, psyche, liberty) beneath the work: when the Author Authority has been found, the text city is "explained."

Scripted from a Barthes education website, author unknown.