You're too smart for your own good. I adore your brain. So WORD. Being a Lit Analysis student sometimes makes me forget many people still believe that intent is analyzable. I rather study interpretation because it's more easily accesible than intent. However, I do believe the author should take responsibility for certain interpretations of their texts or at least take them in consideration. And remember that context matters. If ten people tell me a fic of mine is, say, racist, I should at least give it a thought. And WORD on the 'not all interpretations equal'. Interpretations that presume to know author's intent annoy me specially, both in fandom ('JK ROWLING TOTALLY PUT SIRIUS/REMUS IN THE BOOKS!') or literary studies (no, you don't know what Casa Tomada is about, for the ninth time! NOT EVEN CORTAZAR KNEW!). But really, it was a simple, clean breakdown of the issues involved. Totally bookmarking it.
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I adore your brain.
So WORD. Being a Lit Analysis student sometimes makes me forget many people still believe that intent is analyzable. I rather study interpretation because it's more easily accesible than intent.
However, I do believe the author should take responsibility for certain interpretations of their texts or at least take them in consideration. And remember that context matters. If ten people tell me a fic of mine is, say, racist, I should at least give it a thought.
And WORD on the 'not all interpretations equal'. Interpretations that presume to know author's intent annoy me specially, both in fandom ('JK ROWLING TOTALLY PUT SIRIUS/REMUS IN THE BOOKS!') or literary studies (no, you don't know what Casa Tomada is about, for the ninth time! NOT EVEN CORTAZAR KNEW!).
But really, it was a simple, clean breakdown of the issues involved. Totally bookmarking it.