Author Type

Graduate Student

Date of Award

1983

Document Type

Thesis

Publication Status

Version of Record

Submission Date

October 2026

Thesis/Dissertation Advisor [Chair]

Pearce, Howard D.

Abstract

Structuralism's Critique of the Romantic Myth of the Author is aimed at the Romantic concept of the author as a special individual possessed of unique sensibilities and God-like powers of creation. The structuralist analysis of this myth is an attempt to decompose - to separate into its component parts - the Romantic image of the author. This act of decomposition enables structuralism to demonstrate the construction of this myth and to suggest its implausability from a perspective informed by structuralist theory. In the course of this analysis, structuralism is able to suggest some of the functions of the myth within literature as well as within contemporary Western culture.

Extent

63 p.

Comments

Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters|Thesis (M.A.)--Florida Atlantic University, 1983.|FAU Electronic Theses and Dissertations Collection|Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters

Identifier

FADT14176

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