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On Monday we gave a shot at ‘reading’ a text without an author. . . I wanted to mention a couple of things about the readings from Richter (part 3) and Roland Barthes’ “The Death of the Author.” This also connects somewhat with canon and curriculum: there was an NYT piece, revisiting these controversies [...]
The discussion was lively, which I greatly appreciate. So lively, in fact, that I needed a few moments after class to process some things that were said, but left inadequately examined or without proper responses.
Someone made an excellent point (with specific example) that, authorial intentions, and even directions on how to read a particular [...]
I’d like to give my thoughts about the discussion we had in class today about authorial intent/reader interpretation.
I respect that any author has a right, or even a duty to imbue their work with meaning or intent; it is after all, their work. And as readers, we should take the author’s meaning into account when [...]