...Dan Shen This essay explores how to infer from a text the image of the implied author. It examines Kate Chopin's “Désirée's Baby” (1893), which has been widely regarded as an indictment of racism but which an “overall consideration” of the implied author's choices will lead us to see as a racist...

... . “ Hallucinating Faces .” Technical Report TR-99–32, The Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, September. Barthes Roland . 1989 . “ The Death of the Author .” In The Rustle of Language , translated by Howard Richard , 49 – 55 . Berkeley : University of California Press...

... a lot of doormen out of work. While authors loom large in discussions of generative AI, though, Barthes and Foucault remind us that any change in the status of the author is inevitably linked to a change in the position of the reader. Thus, in the remainder of this essay, I will focus on one...

...Eyal Segal Lancashire Ian , Forgetful Muses: Reading the Author in the Text . Toronto : University of Toronto Press , 2010 . xiii + 339 pp. © 2013 by Porter Institute for Poetics and Semiotics 2013 New Books at a Glance Marina Grishakova and Marie-Laure Ryan, eds...

...Galia Yanoshevsky This article explores the literary functions of the author interview in all types of media (printed or broadcast, single or collected interviews). It claims that the literariness of the interview resides in the conversational exchange that takes place during the interview...

...Katherine Elkins [email protected] Copyright © 2024 by Porter Institute for Poetics and Semiotics 2024  artificial intelligence (AI) large language models (LLMs) ChatGPT death of the author generative AI Artificial intelligence (AI) has brought the English class...

...Bill Freind This essay argues that the work of Araki Yasusada, an alleged Hiroshima survivor and poet who was later discovered to be an invention, offers an important example of the potential of heteronyms to satisfy the reader's desire for an author figure behind the text while simultaneously...

...H. Porter Abbott From a cognitivist perspective, I defend the utility of the implied author for the interpretation of fictional texts that support more than one intentional reading. David Herman (2008) provides a foil in his opposition to the implied author as object-like source and his promotion...

...Eyal Segal Dawson Paul , The Return of the Omniscient Narrator: Authorship and Authority in Twenty-First Century Fiction . Columbus : Ohio State University Press , 2013 . viii + 278 pp. © 2016 by Porter Institute for Poetics and Semiotics 2016 New Books at a Glance Walter...

..., classical doctrine hesitates. AI shows us the paradoxes of an untenable dream of pure “authorality” that could be achieved only through the pure play of language, at the price of an illusory disappearance of the human. On the contrary, it allows us to rediscover ancient practices of cowriting (the ludic...

..., and Transparency , 610–23 . New York: Association for Computing Machinery. Foucault Michel . 1998 . “What Is an Author?” Translated by Josué V. Harari . In Aesthetics, Method, and Epistemology , edited by Faubion James , 205 – 22 . New York : New Press . Hayles N. Katherine . 2023...

... as the audience the narrator wishes they were addressing. This revision calls attention to the various ways that authors can handle the relations between the actual narratee and the ideal narratee (the actual may—or may not—coincide with the ideal), and such variety, in turn, points to the need for a more general...

...Meir Sternberg; Tamar Yacobi 1 The State of the Art: A Field in Trouble. 2 (Un)Reliable Discourse off to a Stimulating Equivocal Start: Why Wayne Booth's The Rhetoric of Fiction Falls Short and Where to Go from There: 2.1 Stammering between Narrator and Implied Author, or, Why the Author Needs...

... authors' success in the affirmation of their respective identity depends on the success of the love quest. Dante's case is especially relevant to this essay insofar as his poem instantiates his authorial identity as coincident with that of his fictional character. Augustine's confessions, however driven...

...Nir Kedem This article offers a Deleuzian practice of reading as a form of problematization: constructing or “mapping” an author’s lived problematics to which his or her writing responds as so many solutions. Unlike readings that treat authors as patients whose personal pathological symptoms...

...Albert N. Katz; Hamad Al-Azary Received wisdom holds that there is a basic and intrinsic directionality in metaphor, wherein switching the target and source of a metaphor either leads to a loss of meaning or, if meaningful, is based on different sets of features. Here the authors review...

...Roy Porat; Yeshayahu Shen It is widely held that the direction of mapping from the source to the target domain in metaphors derives directly from the conceptual relations between its members (e.g., from concrete to abstract, from salient to less salient). In contrast, the authors propose...

...Jürgen Meyer New Historicism has alerted critics to the complex conditions of literary production in the age of the printing press. The revisionist challenge presented by Jerome J. McGann to the concept of “the” writer as autonomous authority in the publication of a text has necessitated...