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Reading Edgar Allen Poe’s ‘The Purloined Letter’ against Michel Foucault’s ‘What is An Author?’
In his essay ‘What is an Author?’, Michel Foucault explores the relationship between author and reader, offering a critique on what he terms the “author function”, or the role of the author and the implications of this on readers.1 One crucial point he makes is that the desire for singularity… Continue reading