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Summary/Abstract: Informed by Michel Foucalt’s genealogical approach (“Nietzsche, Genealogy, History”, 1984), this paper is primarily concerned with how history inscribes the idea of the author. Suspicious of absolute truths, we have engaged ourselves in critically reading a number of theoretical formulations of the idea from antiquity to the dawn of Romanticism (Plato, Bonaventure, Ronsard, Montaigne, La Motte, Sydney, Pope, or Young, etc.) in order to appropriate its system of rules, identify the hard core of elements that define the author, reveal how certain meanings force their way and impose a certain direction to subsequent evolution, and put present assumptions about the author into their true perspective. We discriminate between the different historical roles the author played as a hermeneutical category, a reference for the interpretation, or a norm in the literary sense.

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