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A work gains merit from its author. Come on, do you think people would read (much less study) authorship if you came up with it? Even the most brilliant professors would laugh you off as an incredible fool is you came up with ideas like Barthes. (Actually, even though Barthes is Barthes, some people still think he is going loco, me included) But you have to admit that the only reason you're doing this assignment is because Barthes wrote it but if it were to be written by Tom's dick who is Harry, then who cares?