Impersonality and Death of the Author

Abstract

This paper describes the theme of creative subjectivity in the western literary criticism. Subjectivity had been cleared up in traditional spirit of European poetics. When the romantic literary criticism praised the subjective during the 19th century, the writers' status became the most lofty. Romanticism was counteracted deeply by Keats and Eliot,with " negative capability " and with " impersonality " theory respectively so that their doctrines became the first sign of The New Criticism. Susan.S.Lanser temped to solve the conflict between personal and public feelings in terms of formalism Semiology. Structuralism and post-structuralism advocated that the writer ws dead'.