The phrase "authorial role" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing the position or function of an author in the context of their work or in relation to their audience.
Example: "In this novel, the authorial role is significant as it shapes the reader's understanding of the narrative."
Alternatives: "writer's position" or "author's function".
The work, "Transcript," shot on grainy 16-millimeter film, plays with the notion of how federal agents added their own interpretations to what was being said -- in a sense taking on an authorial role -- because of the recordings' poor quality.
He says his friends here think nothing of his Oxford degree and that his book will fail to register with many of them – when I meet some of them later, they rib him mercilessly about his new authorial role.
As in her last collection ("Naked to the Waist," 1991), the weaker stories in this volume tend to rely too insistently on sudden ironic plot twists to expose her characters' illusions, twists and turns that underscore Ms. Dark's authorial role as an O. Henryesque puppeteer.
Leaving all assumptions aside, we spoke with Cisma about his major works, his creative process, advertising and the authorial role, as well as his views on the current state of the seventh art.
The shift toward a more explicit listing of authorial roles seems likely to continue, but the situation may never completely clarify.
This is why the role of authorial omniscience has such a fraught history, for the anxiety is partly a theological one and has the unresolved nature of a theological argument.
Most obviously, his dialogues are dramas with several formal features in common with much tragedy and comedy (for example, the use of authorial irony, the importance of plot, setting, the role of individual character and the interplay between dramatis personae).
But Menzies might also have relished his role as an authorial eminence grise, exercising his creative power in indirect, elusive ways.
Yet Mr. Nohilly had built the play around Travis, whereas in those other masterworks the authorial stand-ins were supporting roles.
Groff sows her text with bracketed authorial interventions, in which she plays the role of omniscient Greek chorus, reminding us that she is measuring the thread for her invented spools.
This is not an oversight on Herbert's part but, rather, a clever authorial decision.
