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In [[literary theory]], the author function is the [[writer]] of a work as seen by the [[reader]]. Each work by the same author has a separate author function, and each work by numerous or unknown authors has a single distinct author function. In the wake of [[postmodern]] [[literature]], [[Roland Barthes]] in his seminal essay [[Death of the Author]] (1968) and other ''literary critics have questioned this function, i.e. the relevance of the authorship to a text's meaning''.
 
In [[literary theory]], the author function is the [[writer]] of a work as seen by the [[reader]]. Each work by the same author has a separate author function, and each work by numerous or unknown authors has a single distinct author function. In the wake of [[postmodern]] [[literature]], [[Roland Barthes]] in his seminal essay [[Death of the Author]] (1968) and other ''literary critics have questioned this function, i.e. the relevance of the authorship to a text's meaning''.
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Some historical financial arrangements between authors and [[publishers]]
 
Some historical financial arrangements between authors and [[publishers]]

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