I think the framework of the author being “dead” hung more than we expected on the notion that the author existed at all, that there once had been an authorial intent even if it is now unavailable or irrelevant.
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I think it goes farther back, to the Enlightenment discarding hermeneutics as a religious activity and striving to create a world of pure reason, though death of the author is probably more visible to our modern fan-centric culture (probably because the quasi-religious we treat authors).
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