Oh my, strangers in my journal! Somehow I knew I got linked.
Other OT point: SAIYUKI ICON IS LOVE.
*ahem*
Your point is excellent. If nothing else, this is the twenty-first century, and the idea that authorial intent is intrinsically relevant to the interpretation of text has already been widely established to be false. You can take it into account up to a point, but, as has already been well established, the author is, to tall intents and purposes, dead, as far as literary criticism is concerned.
Once a text has been published, the author certainly has no more right to determine its interpretation through supplementary commentary than anyone else. If you wish to make something a part of your text, you have to write it in there. No backsies.
To me, it's, well... that whole thing about privilege and presumption I wrote the post about, mixed in with a hefty dose in a lot of cases of actual, they're-in-denial-but-so-what racism. (Which I didn't include in the post, because it wasn't really the thrust of my argument, and has been well covered in other sources.)
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Other OT point: SAIYUKI ICON IS LOVE.
*ahem*
Your point is excellent. If nothing else, this is the twenty-first century, and the idea that authorial intent is intrinsically relevant to the interpretation of text has already been widely established to be false. You can take it into account up to a point, but, as has already been well established, the author is, to tall intents and purposes, dead, as far as literary criticism is concerned.
Once a text has been published, the author certainly has no more right to determine its interpretation through supplementary commentary than anyone else. If you wish to make something a part of your text, you have to write it in there. No backsies.
To me, it's, well... that whole thing about privilege and presumption I wrote the post about, mixed in with a hefty dose in a lot of cases of actual, they're-in-denial-but-so-what racism. (Which I didn't include in the post, because it wasn't really the thrust of my argument, and has been well covered in other sources.)