More Roland Barthes

If you were interested in reading an essay by Barthes, please go here:

http://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=Death+of+the+Author+by+Roland+Barthes&hl=en&um=1&ie=UTF-8&oi=scholart

And click on "The Death of the Author" link. It is really quite fascinating!

The death of the author is the birth of the critic. We can use this idea also in discussing art and the responsibility of the critic to the artist and the his or her work (especially after the artist has died).