WHAT IS AN AUTHOR? A REVIEW

Author as purveyor of falsehoods—Plato.

Author as quai-divine seer—Emerson

Author as Catalyst or technician—Eliot

Author as a function of discourse—Foucault and Barthes.

Author as a victim—Woolf, Gilbert and Gubar

Author as political agent—Cixous, Woolf, Gilbert and Gubar