Hello, I have several questions related to this writing. Could you answer them?
1. What is the difference between an author and a "scriptor"? Between an individual and a
"subject"? Between "literature" and "text"?
2. What is the relationship between scriptor and text?
3. What is a "text" made of? How does Barthes redefine what it means to be a writer and a
reader?
4. Why is the "death of the author" the "birth of the reader"?
5. Why is classical, biography-based criticism hypocritical, according to Barthes? How does it
-- and even formalism -- work to enhance the power of the author?
6. In what sense do Barthes' comments about texts and how to read them move beyond
structuralism? How does his model of language here run counter to the goals of structuralist anaysis?
