[ SECRET POST #2518 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2518 ⌋

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

"Barthes notes that the traditional critical approach to literature raises a thorny problem: how can we detect precisely what the writer intended? His answer is that we cannot."

Except here we can, because the author is still alive and clear on his intent. Insisting that your interpretation is more correct than the author's is like telling someone that a character they just made up in their head as a male dog named Max is actually a female squirrel named Amy.

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nb that authors are not gods - they may intend to do one thing but actually end up doing another, of which they may be totally unaware. reader response theory dealt with this back in the 1970s and 80s - the text is cocreated by author and reader, is inherently fluid, multitudinous, and unstable, and contains multitudes. "correct" is simply not a useful term/frame for working with text, for these reasons. "available" is better - what interpretations are available, what interpretations are a stretch? and also nb that stretchy interpretations are not necessarily less interesting or valid, merely different in kind.