According to common sense, authors are people who write books. This is part of the definition from "The Routledge Dictionary of Literary Terms." But then it goes on...it is an activity subject to considerable historical variation.
Summarize the main ideas of the definition.
Modern criticism says that a literacy work contained all the necessary information for understanding. It shows that there is no need in knowing the author´s life to interpret the texts. In my opinion it is not truth because if you know in which context the author wrote his creation, you will understand all the underlying information within the text.
ResponderEliminarI believe that an author is a person who "creates" something which reflects his/ her style. The creation has a context in which it was written.
As we have discussed in class, knowing the authors`background helps you to read the story between lines. E.g. I read "El eternauta" in History during secondary school which,I think, was situated during peronism period. If you know the historical background and perhaps something of the author`s life, you can notice other things in the story.
ResponderEliminarAnyway, as a broad concept, I would say that the author is the one that makes a piece of writing (1st grade children can be the authors of a story)
In my opinion it is very important to know something about the author's life when reading a book, for instance, his personality, his life, the historical context of the book which he wrote, and so on because sometimes when you read a book these items are included there but they are implicit so you can't understand what the author wanted to express properly.
ResponderEliminarI agree with Daniela's definition of an author.