Image, Postura, Project. Bets on a New Approach to the Figure of the Author

Abstract

The author's return, both to literary pages and to research agendas, manifests one of the central problems of the subject in the 21st century. It belongs to all the theoretical fields of the human sciences and demands a revision, a problematization, a multiple approach. This subject who returns-a figure weighted and forgotten in time, dead and resurrected- adopts new ways of expressing himself and positioning himself not only in his texts but in the real world.

The initial question is about how to approach this erratic concept of author that is composed of fifty percent of language and fifty percent of reality, half man and half simulacrum, half subject and half speech. The theoretical framework that we assemble seeks to answer this question through the scenic metaphors, those that allow us to investigate the staging procedures of the author as part of the construction of an authorial project. This article, through a qualitative methodology, analyzes the categories of authorial project (Zapata), author image (Maingueneau, Amossy and Gramuglio) and author's position (Meizoz).