Re: Worst SF/F book you've read
- From: "Christopher Adams" <mhacdebhandia@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 12 Aug 2005 00:50:23 GMT
Tina Hall wrote:
>
> The author should know best, never mind what someone else wants to
> interpret into the text. (Humans have the tendency to interpret a
> lot into things. Doesn't make their impressions true.)
Just for the sake of making trouble:
"Death of the author is a theory proposed by French literary critic Roland
Barthes. It states that the intentions of the author are meaningless to the
interpretation of a text. According to this theory, any given text consists not
of one authorial voice but of multiple genres, outside influences, subconscious
drives, and preexisting texts that constantly shape and inform all
communication."
"Intentional fallacy is a literary term that asserts that the meaning intended
by the author of a literary work is not the only, and perhaps not the most
important, meaning of the piece. The term was first used by W.K. Wimsatt and
Monroe Beardsley in their essay The Intentional Fallacy. The notion of author's
intention has become central to modern literary criticism, and the explanation
of intentional fallacy is an important part of what is known as the New
Criticism.
When writing an author must call upon both their understanding of the language
in which they write and their personal experiences about reality to create a
work. Even the most escapist fantasy must appeal to some shared understanding in
the reader to be intelligible at all. A reader must also call upon their
understanding of language and personal experiences in order to decode meaning in
a work.
A literary work may thus be looked at as an attempt by an author to communicate
to a reader via a shared language and shared experiences with the reader.
Without a common ground, communication is laboured or impossible.
There will always be some differences between author and reader, however. The
author and the reader will inevitably have had different personal experiences,
and therefore hold different beliefs and opinions about what different aspects
of reality mean, and their relative importances. Because of these differences
the meaning taken by a reader is always only approximately the meaning intended
by the author, and also only approximately the meaning taken by other readers.
Further complicating communication is that both the author and the reader may be
unaware of peculiarities in their understanding of reality, and these
peculiarities may colour either the work as written or the meaning taken by the
reader in ways unconscious to either."
--
Christopher Adams - Sydney, Australia
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The mother and the father!
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