The Death and Return of the Author: Criticism and Subjectivity in Barthes, Foucault and DerridaFor the late twentieth century, the death of the author assumed a significance analogous to the death of God one hundred years previously. In this now classic study, Sen Burke both provides the first detailed explanation of anti authorialism and shows how, even taken on its own terms, the attempt to abolish the author is philosophically untenable. Rather than developing a traditionally humanist defence, Burke effectively out theorises theory through