The Author

I have decided to talk about "The Death of the Author". I feel it is best to explain a liberal humanists view of an author first. A liberal humanist belives that the author should have nothing to do with the plot of the story and the morals of the story. The author and the background never relate to anthing that is being told in the work of literature. The author is not of meaning. In "Death of the Author" Barthe's takes a Post-Structuralist view of this liberal humanist concept. The term scripter is presented in this concept. The scripter replaces the author. According to Barthe the scripter "transcibes the culture". It also means that there is no origin other than language. Barthe belives that in this view we never know who is speaking and the the reader becomes the source. All identitiy of the autor is lost in this theory. The conecept of the "I" no longer exisits in this post-structuralist view. Like a post-strucrualist Barthe also believes that nothing is ever signified it is just a constant sinfier signifier and so on. I am still reall confused however on how the reader becomes the source. I know that I would explain it as the reader takes meaning from the story but i know that is wrong so therefore I am left confused by this theory.
http://centerofgravitas.blogspot.com/search?q=author
I found this article on the Blog of center of gravitas. This blog discussed that Jk Rowling came out with a statment after the Harry potter books were finished that the character of dumbeldore was gay. She seems to think that it was unessacary to put that statement out after the book was already written. The author of this blog feels that if she was going to make the character gay Rowling should have done it in the book itself. The blog author leaves me to belive that she has a liberal humanist view on the author. That the author should have nothing to do with the story and that the stroy should just tell itself without the help of the author. She also believes that if Dumbeldore was going to be a "queer hero" it would have been better to put it in the book becasue that is the only way he would have been a hero to the audience reading them. She believes there is no signifcance in know this fact after the book has been written. The author of this blog clearly has a liberal humanist view on the author or at least the HArry Potter books.