The Structure of Authorship

Foucault: The construction of this idea of the author is not a spontaneous thing, then it was rather the comes about through various formulaic and systematic efforts. And he traces back to Saint Jerome, a similar kind of a similar desire to lay out the foundations for the recognition of an author. So suddenly a literary text couldn't be really anonymous, at least, at least not like appreciated as anonymous. They're the kind of truth behind the text had to be had to be found in the form of the author.