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SUMMARY:The Function of the Author in Samizdat Text Production - Valentina
  Parisi
DTSTART:20170207T170000Z
DTEND:20170207T183000Z
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DESCRIPTION:In _What is an Author?_ (1969) Michel Foucault re-defined the 
 author of a literary work as the “principle of thrift in the proliferati
 on of meaning”\, i. e. as an unifying principle\, which impedes the free
  manipulation and re-composition of texts. Departing from this notion\, th
 e talk will tackle relevant examples in samizdat/tamizdat textual producti
 on where the author lacks control over the further reproduction and dissem
 ination of his/her work. The goal is to show that in samizdat the author-f
 unction theorized by Foucault _disperses_ into the readers who reproduce t
 he texts and construct their meanings. 
LOCATION:Latimer room\, Clare College\, Cambridge
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