Real Author

Some articles on author, real author, real:

Eponymous Author
... The eponymous author of a literary work, often a work that is meant to be prophetic or homiletic, is not really the author ... An anonymous author chooses to write in the name of another ... This eponymous author is not merely a pen name for the real author, but someone with a completely different identity ...
Implied Author - History
... insist that the correct interpretation of a text reflects the intention of the real author exactly ... However, under the influence of structuralism, Roland Barthes declared "the death of the (real) author", saying the text speaks for itself in reading ... should not confuse the meaning of the text with the author's intention, pointing out that one can understand the meaning of a text without knowing anything whatsoever about the author ...

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