'The notion of author constitutes the privileged moment of individualization in the history of ideas, knowledge, literature, philosophy and the sciences.' Identify the critical essay in which the line occurs.
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Correct answer: B. 'What is an Author?'
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The line is from Michel Foucault's 'What is an Author?' (1969), which replaces the individual author with the 'author-function' — a way discourse is classified, owned and controlled. It answers Barthes's 'The Death of the Author' (1967).
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