He may be best-known for an essay that claims that language "knows a subject, not a person" and advocates the advent of the "scriptor".
This writer borrowed Emile Benveniste's divide between the system of history represented by the aorist tense and the system of discourse in an essay that outlines the rise of the middle voice and questions the transitivity of a certain verb. Another of his works lays out a topos formed by the referential, symbolic, semic, proairetic, and hermeneutic codes. He may be best-known for an essay that claims that language "knows a subject, not a person" and advocates the advent of the "scriptor". For 10 points, name this structuralist who analyzed Balzac's "Sarrasine" in his S/Z and who claimed that "the birth of the reader must be at the cost of the death of the Author".
This writer borrowed Emile Benveniste's divide between the system of history represented by the aorist tense and the system of discourse in an essay that outlines the rise of the middle voice and questions the transitivity of a certain verb.
Roland {Barthes}