In The Death of the Author, Barthes describes a text as multiple writings from different cultures interacting through dialogue, parody and contestation. Their multiplicity converges in the reader rather than in a single authorial origin. Which school does this most strongly represent?
The passage displaces a sovereign authorial origin and treats meaning as produced through plural textual relations, a characteristic post-structuralist move. Hence C is the official answer. Although the reader is foregrounded, that thematic overlap does not make the passage most specifically an example of the separate reader-response school.
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