In his essay "What Is an Author?" what position(s) on authorship does Michel Foucault take ?
Correct answer: D. All of the above.
- A. The names of authors serve a classificatory function.
- B. The author is not a source of infinite meaning.
- C. The author may not always exist.
- D. All of the above.
Explanation
Foucault’s “author function” makes the author’s name a way of classifying texts, limits the idea of the author as an unlimited source of meaning, and shows that authorship is historically variable. Thus all three statements apply.
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