Bawarshi-The Genre Function

Anis Bawarshi is arguing the idea of the author-function. Bawarshi feels the author-function delimits the value of the author. The author-function does not refer to the real writer. The real writer is the individual who's name precedes and independently exists of the work. The author-function holds the author as part of a literary genre. Bawarshi feels that when we subject basic writers to this idea of author-function we are not giving them status as authors but rather literary works. He believes that genres functions. He states that "genres are implicated in the way we experience and enact a great many of the discursive realities." The point he is trying to make is that its not what the writer writes about that defines a genre yet, it is how the reader engages with the text and experiences it that constitutes a genre.