From The Death Of Author To The Prsence Of Author

Content: The thesis discusses the origin and implication of "the death of author", suggested by Rolan Barthes, a well-known French critic, during the turning period of narratology, and points out that the raising of "the death of author" marks the turning of narratology. It magnifies the arbitrary signifier of narrative text, maximizes the arbitrariness of text, and allows readers to escape the control of authors. Furthermore, it turns narrative text, an independemt object under the study of classic narratology, into a product out of readers active involvement and reconstruction.Besides, the emergence of "metafiction" interprets narratology from another aspect, it aims to expound narratology in novels, and shows that narration is a labyrinth. Metafiction also espels entirely the author out of text by fabricating "the death of author "and "the presence of author" aim to make narrative text more signified.