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3-in-1 Sock Package - 80% Cotton / 20% Spandex  - One Size (US-M 6-13)  1. Roland Barthes - Death of The Author / Pleasure of The Text Barthes argues against the method of reading and criticism that relies on aspects of the author's identity—their political views, historical context, religion, ethnicity, psychology, or other biographical or personal attributes—to distill meaning from the author's work. In this type of criticism, the experiences and biases of the author serve as a definitive "explanation" of the text. For Barthes, this method of reading may be apparently tidy and convenient but is actually sloppy and flawed: "To give a text an author" and assign a single, corresponding interpretation to it "is to impose a limit on that text". Level 1. The sign. The signifier and the signified, and the “associative total of the two” which is the sign. Examples of signs: bouquet of roses signifying passion; black pebble signifying death. Sign in language (Saussure): the signifier i