"We know now that a text is not a line of words releasing a single "theological" meaning (the "message" of the Author-God) but a multidimensional space in which a variety of writings, none of them original, blend and clash .... Literature ... by refusing to assign a "secret", an ultimate meaning, to the text (and to the world as text) liberates what may be called an anti-theological activity, an activity that is truly revolutionary since to refuse to fix meaning is, in the end to refuse God and his hypostases - reason, science, law." The passage comes from which of the following essays?
"The Death of the Author" by Roland Barthes
The passage is from Roland Barthes’s “The Death of the Author.” It rejects the author as the sole authority fixing a text’s meaning and emphasizes the interaction of multiple writings. The essay first appeared in English in Aspen in 1967 and in French in Mantéia in 1968.
Important Questions from Literature
W. H. Auden belonged to the:
Robert Browning's poetry is:
Among T. S. Eliot's works, the character of Tiresias appears in
Charles Lamb wrote under the pseudonym
Munoo is the central character in Mulk Raj Anand's novel
