You want to think about how much attention and primacy we should give to an author's statements about what her work mean--as readers.
对于作者对自己作品的阐述和说明,我们怎么注意,怎么给予优先度也不为过。
If it ever did have an author's name attached to it, we don't have any evidence in the manuscript history.
如果它曾经写有作者的名字,那么原始手稿里没有任何证据。
To give a text an Author is to impose a limit on that text, to furnish it with a final signified, to close the writing.
在创作的时候,作者会给文章加上个限制,他最后会给出一个象征意义来结束写作。
And unless, you know, you've been hired to do Pirandello's Six Characters In Search Of An Author, this is not a great thing, because you get something that is really confusing.
可能一点关系也没有,要是你拍的是皮兰德娄的荒诞名剧,《六个找寻作家的角色》,那可能是件好事,因为你得到的是一个足够混乱的结果。
Wise Blood was written by an author congenitally innocent of theory, but one with certain preoccupations.
慧血》作者从来不局限于理论范畴,而是有自己的侧重点。
He was an author, a lawyer, then Supreme Court Justice, but he wrote a book in 1914 called Other People's Money and it was very influential.
他是一位作家,一位律师,也当过大法官,他在1914年写了本书叫做《抢钱至尊》,这本书非常具有影响力
In a way, there's a subset of questions that arises from those, to the effect that this is, of course, what we'll be taking up next time: the question "What is an author?"
从这些大问题中又会产生一些小问题,这些问题也将是我们以后会讨论的:,关于文学的缘由,我们接着又会问,“作者是谁?“
One of the reasons this understanding seems so problematic is the idea that we don't appeal to the authority of an author in making our mind about the nature of a given field of discourse.
这种理解之所以看起来有问题,一个原因就是我们不会为了弄清一个特定领域话语的本质,去诉求作者的权威。
It's published without an author's name being listed.
出版时没有写上作者。
Because we're as skeptical about skepticism as we are about anything else we're likely to raise our eyebrows and say, "Hmm. Doesn't this guy Foucault think he's an author?
因为我们对怀疑论的怀疑,肯定和我们扬起眉毛质疑其他事物是一样的,我们会说:“嗯,这个叫福柯的人自称是作家吗?
It's a question rather of how we know the author to be there, firstly, and secondly, whether or not in attempting we should appeal to the authority of an author.
首先我们如何知道作者在那儿,其次,决定文本意义的时候,如果作者只是一种功能。
Nabokov When we moved on to Nabokov, we had an author trying to imagine a work of art so autonomous from the world that it could be something like an autonomous form of life.
接下来我们说了,这是一位试图将文学作品想象为发自世界,以至于成为生活的一种自主形式的作家。
He says, "They aren't authors. They're founders of discursivity," and then he grants that it's kind of difficult to distinguish between a founder of discursivity and an author who has had an important influence. Right?
他说:“他们不是作者,他们是散漫性的创始人“,然后他认为很难区分,究竟散漫性的创始人和作者,哪个的影响更重要,对吗?
That is to say, if something causes literature, there must be some sort of authority behind it and therefore we find ourselves asking, "What is an author?"
即是说,如果文学有缘由的,它的背后一定存在作者,所以我们会问,“作者是谁?“
Does he want to say that he's just an author function, that his textual field is a kind of set of structural operations within which one can discover an author?
他是不是想说他只是个功能性的作者,而他所写的文章只是一套,用于发现作者的结构上的应用程序?
All right. It's all very well. You're not an author, but I secretly think I'm an author, right?"
很好,你不是个作家,但是我私下认为我是,可以不?“
Foucault confronts this question in "What is an Author?"
在《什么是作者》中,福柯谈到了这些问题“
You get the idea that everything arises from the extraordinary mental acuity or spiritual insight of an author and that what needs to be understood about literature is the genius of its production.
你发现一切,都源自这些作者的敏锐头脑和深刻见解,关于文学,你需要理解的,是这些天才的作品。
So that's a shot fired across the bow against the author because it's Barthes' supposition that the author isn't maybe even quite an author function because that function may be hard to identify in a discrete way among myriad other functions.
因而这是对作者的警告,因为巴特推测,作者可能甚至都不是功能性的,因为这种功能可能很难通过分离的方式,在很多其他功能中被辨认出来。
What should be established I think is an artistic, harmonious balance between the reader's mind and the author's mind.
我觉得需要建立一种能艺术地协调,读者和作者思想之间的平衡,我们要保持些许冷漠。
How do you get from an intending author to an intentional structure and back?
如何从有意图的作者,到意向性结构然后在回过来?
But to speak of an intentional structure as a center is not at all the same thing as to speak of an intending person, author, being, or idea that brought it into existence, because that's extraneous.
但是讲到一个作为中心的意向性结构,与讲到一个创造它的人,作者,存在,或概念是完全不同的,因为那是外来的。
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