It would seem that the author’s name, unlike other proper names, does not pass from the interior of a discourse to the real and exterior individual who produced it; instead, the name seems always to be present, marking off the edges of the text, revealing, or at least characterizing, its mode of being. The author’s name manifests the appearance of a certain discursive set and indicates the status of this discourse within a society and a culture. It has no legal status, nor is it located in the fiction of the work; rather, it is located in the break that founds a certain discursive construct and its very particular mode of being. As a result, we could say that in a civilization like our own there are a certain number of discourses that are endowed with the “author-function”, while others are deprived of it. A private letter may well have a signer_ it does not have an author; a contract may well have a guarantor_ it does not have an author. An anonymous text posted on a wall probably has a writer_ but not an author. The author-function is therefore characteristic of the mode of existence, circulation, and functioning of certain discourses within a society. . Michel Foucault
When male authors write love stories, the heroine tends to end up dead.
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Susan Elizabeth Phillips
May my heart be kind, my mind fierce, and my spirit brave.
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Kate Forsyth
A book series is never truly over. The story lives on, even when the final page has been turned.
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Richard P. Denney
The brightest light casts the darkest shadow.
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Jess C. Scott
Ignorance isn't a sword. It's a weight that drags a soul swirling to the bottom of the sea.
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Melodie Ramone
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Discourse is not life; its time is not your time; in it, you will not be reconciled to death; you may have killed God beneath the weight of all that you have said; but don't imagine that, with all that you are saying you will...
