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Can someone help me with the name of this guy?

Hi, I’m wondering about some 20th century literature critic (maybe 19th century, cant remember tbh)
He wrote about “ennuncial poverty” or something, which said 90% of texts were a pile of (insert substance of choice) and that when analysing critics were making something out of nothing, seeing things that were not really there to make up for the poor quality of the texts. I think he was french or something, and had a name vaugely like F*cker. Any ideas?

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Dr. Ralph offline Verified User (4 years, 7 months) Long Term User Shouts: 1 #
An Unknown Location | 1 year, 3 months ago (28 minutes after post)

I think you are confused. Do you have any more information about the F*cker?

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1 year, 3 months ago (40 minutes after post)

Nope, I know “ennuncial poverty” is not right though. It’s something along those lines but not “ennuncial”. I know the essay was basically an argument against the ideas brought forward in “The death of the author” by Roland Barthes and other critics.

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1 year, 3 months ago (43 minutes after post)

Dr. Ralph wrote:
I think you are confused. Do you have any more information about the F*cker?

Dont think I’m blind to the humour though ;)

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An Unknown Location | 1 year, 3 months ago (46 minutes after post)

ha HA!

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