Practice question · Numerical answer
Wimsatt and Beardsley published on the intentional fallacy in 1946 and Barthes published The Death of the Author in 1967. How many years separate them?
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- Subtract the earlier year from the later.
- 1967 minus 1946.
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21
Why
21 years. The two arguments arrive from opposite directions and land near each other: an American formalist case about evidence in criticism, and a French structuralist case about where a text comes from. Both remove the author as the guarantor, and neither says the work means nothing.
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