...are endowed with the "author function," while others are deprived of it. A private letter may well have a signer — it does not have an author; a contract...a wall probably has a writer— but not an author. The author function is therefore characteristic of the mode of existence, circulation, and functioning...

...endowed with the 'author-function,' while the others are deprived of it. A private letter may well have a signer it does not have an author; a contract...on a wall probably has a writer but not an author. The author-function is therefore characteristic of the mode of existence, circulation, and functioning...

...are endowed with the 'author function' , while others are deprived of it. A private letter may well have a signer — it does not have an author; a contract...wall probably has a writer — but not an author. The author function is therefore characteristic of the mode of existence, circulation, and functioning...

...have a signer—it does not have an author," he claimed; "a contract may well have a guarantor—it does not have an author. An anonymous text posted...a wall probably has a writer— but not an author" (107-8). Rifkind, on the other hand, offered a prescriptive variant of the same point: trivial genres...

...an Author?" (1969), in which we find a revealing aside: "A private letter may well have a signer — it does not have an author. . . . An anonymous text...wall probably has a writer — but not an author.'"' A "signer" has a more dense ontological status than the discredited "author," albeit barely so; and...