FTP, name this French critic who demoded authors to the level of "scriptors" in his great 1968 essay, "The Death of the Author."
A proponent of structuralism in the wake of Ferdinand de Sassure and Claude Lévi-Strauss, he authored such texts as Image-Music-Text, Elements of Semiology, and S-Z. He believed that the creative—or "reconstructive"—activity perpetually produces meaning, though meaning itself as a substance is less important than the activity of producing it. FTP, name this French critic who demoded authors to the level of "scriptors" in his great 1968 essay, "The Death of the Author."
A proponent of structuralism in the wake of Ferdinand de Sassure and Claude Lévi-Strauss, he authored such texts as Image-Music-Text, Elements of Semiology, and S-Z.
Roland {Barthes} [BART]