"What Is an Author?"

In the reading, "What Is an Author?" written by Michel Foucault, he defined the author functions and telling us what we supposed to prepared to be an author. Foucault expounded the term of author and believed that it did not refer to a flesh and blood writter but more like a revealer. in this essay, foucault saw the role of author as maintaining stylistic uniformity and theoretical coherence. The ability to separate the author from the text and to place the author outside of the text itself was the beginning of the end of the author.