[ SECRET POST #5038 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #5038 ⌋

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

Intent of the author isn't fucking magical.

[(Anonymous)]

For blatant things I would agree (obvious racism, sexism, etc), but if there's stuff that's had multiple interpretations and is argued about in fan spaces, to ignore the author when they say what interpretation is correct just because you don't agree seems stupid.

[(Anonymous)]

No, I think it's the whole point, ignoring the author if I don't like what they have to say.

The text is the text, and the intent can be interpreted in any way that I like as the reader or viewer.

To put it in a different framework, if I buy a sofa and the designer says it should be put into a traditional living room, but I decide to put it in postmodern punk setting, that's my choice. It has become mine by the process of consumption, and art becomes mine (or yours), also by the process of consumption.

[(Anonymous)]

nayrt

eehhh, that's not really a great analogy. more like if you buy a sofa and then declare it to be a piano stool because you decided you wanted a piano stool more than you wanted a sofa and it can technically serve as a piano stool if you put it by a piano and the piano is the right height for the sofa to fit under the keyboard. You CAN use the sofa as a piano stool, but that doesn't mean it "is" a piano stool.

[(Anonymous)]

This thread really isn't how Death of the Author works. The work is the work. The text is the text. The person reading the text is not obligated to go on a wild goose chase for historical or biographical ephemera which may or may not exist or be reliable for the author in question in order to divine what the author "really" meant. Presumably the author said what they meant through a painstaking process of developing the work.

Particularly when you're talking about authors whose biographies have been embellished to the point of historical fiction.

[(Anonymous)]

If you write something and I don't get the thing out of it they want me to get, that's too bad for them, so sad, because I can't read their minds.