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What's your stance on Death of the Author?
The "Death of the Author" is a literary concept stating that an author's personal life, beliefs, and intended meaning should not control how a text is interpreted by French theorist Roland Barthes in his 1967 essay, the theory argues that once a work is published, it belongs entirely to the reader.
I believe people shouldn't confuse the author's intended meaning with the entirety of a work's possible meaning. "But if the author tells us what they meant, shouldn't that count?" Of course it counts as evidence. If George Orwell explicitly says what he intended 1984 to criticize, that is historically interesting and interpretively relevant. But t...... 1 reply
