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Topic: Authorial intent

	Authorial intentionality - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In literary theory and aesthetics, authorial intentionality is a concept referring to an author's intent as it is encoded in his work.
		In psychoanalytic criticism, on the other hand, the author's biography and subconscious state were seen as part of the text, and therefore the author's intent could be revived from a literary text -- although the intent might be a subconscious one.
		For Marxists (especially those of the Soviet Realism type), authorial intent is manifest in the text and must be placed in a context of liberation and the materialist dialectic.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Authorial_intent (716 words)

	authorial intent and methodology (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		There is a difference between denying (that is > contradicting) authorial intent, and a methodology which is not dependant > upon authorial intent.
		I think that these fit into your criteria "denies authorial intent and raises valid points." Although you might deny the "validity" of the points they raise, other scholars find them to be exciting methodologies.
		I personally do not want to give up on authorial intent, but neither do I want to deny the social construction of reality and the fact that any hermeneutic (especially an unconscious one) will have an impact on the results, which is what I have learned most from the abovementioned methods.
	www.ibiblio.org /bgreek/archives/greek-1/msg00129.html (317 words)

	Right Reason: Above the Subtext: Why Authorial Intent is a Distraction
		We might consider an author's intent in interpreting the words of a poem or a novel, because a poem or a novel is merely the author's expression of his or her own ideas.
		It's timely arguments became, in addition to the authors' intent, but also what was more broadly understood to be a strong indication of the meaning of the words themselves, and was referrd to as such by the courts as early as 1790 or so.
		Intent of the framers in 1787 is probably easier to portray as the equivalent of original meaning than, for example, portraying intent of the authors in 1868 as the equivalent of the original meaning of the 14th amendment's due process clause.
	rightreason.ektopos.com /archives/2005/11/above_the_subte.html (15061 words)

	Hypotyposeis: Intentional Fallacy
		This is not too far removed from the legal-inspired approach to finding intent I mentioned, in which the author's stated intentions are part of the evidence for what the text means, but it is less privileged than what a reasonable reader of the text would understand it to be.
		The legal system has a built-in bias for the status quo, and the burden of proof is the main way of rationing the state's resources: it sets a standard for what is needed to convince the machinery of justice to act in such a way to change the status quo (transferring wealth, imprisonment, etc.).
		That answer is "we can't!" We cannot distinguish authorial intentions so we cannot tell whether something has been corrupted by, for example, printer's error; all we can do is rely on the text we have which we must simply reproduce as it stands without interfering with it.
	www.hypotyposeis.org /weblog/2003/12/intentional-fallacy.html (702 words)

	Discovering The Elephant: An integralist approach to understanding graphic novels, part two
		The meaning of a piece is a product of authorial intent, and to discover said meaning, all that a potential critic must do is plumb the historical record (auxiliary writings, essays etc) to uncover what the artist intended.
		These cases where intent predates the coining of the term graphic novel in English represent a clear threat to the ordering principles of the authorial intent strategy.
		By making this small shift from Mimesis to Intent, we have been able to comfortably classify the largest percentage of potential works as being clearly graphic novels, which, critically, is a success or at least the beginning of one.
	www.ninthart.com /display.php?article=700 (1220 words)

	Midrash and authorial intent (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		The question is, did the typical Midrash of the day deny authorial intent?
		I would answer yes to the first, and no to the second, and that is the distinction I would make between them.
		I would also say that any methodology which denies authorial intent is wrong, and vast elements of Midrashic thought shared by Paul and not denying authorial intent are correct, even by todays standards.
	www.ibiblio.org /bgreek/archives/greek-1/msg00122.html (150 words)

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		Intent, to the degree that it's > discernible, must be latent within the language, but the language by > itself > (especially of a poem) tends to polyvalent to the point that > information > external to the text is necessary to limit interpretive > possibilities.
		I think in terms of the physical production of texts, we do need to assume authorial intent in the sense that we use textual analysis to reconstruct the final version of the text as the author probably intended it to be.
		Intent, to the degree that it's discernible, must be latent within the language, but the language by itself (especially of a poem) tends to polyvalent to the point that information external to the text is necessary to limit interpretive possibilities.
	www.richmond.edu /~creamer/milton/archives/2001/200103c.txt (17391 words)

	Literary Genre
		Since we cannot knowingly obtain certainty of authorial intent with some biblical texts, we must rely on probability as a means of measurement.
		By digging for the intent of the author, a better understanding of the appropriate genre can be reached, as well as a deeper meaning.
		Neglect of authorial intent can lead to controversial interpretations where meaning is not deemed clear.
	www.theisticevolution.org /lit_genre.html (1162 words)

	Faith in Photography - Metapaper (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Its intent was to carry out this goal by implementing several sections of imagery, each section designed to approach the viewer from a different angle.
		Firstly, another student decided to focus their entire project on authorial intent, which would have deflated the power behind a portion of ‘Faith in Photography’.
		With both Authorial Intent and Word Versus Photograph now gone from the project, it was left with a gaping hole.
	www.utdallas.edu /~jlf032000/FaithInPhotography/metapaper.html (1065 words)

	SLOW READING LISTS (and the meaning of SLOW READING)
		But for me the launching of these slow reading lists is a kind of experiment, an experiment designed to explore the hypothesis that this form of computer-mediated communication may be peculiarly well-suited to fostering the recovery of a certain art of conversation: that in which listening holds at least an equal place with speaking.
		Subscribers are invited to explore the possibility that a respectful reading of books that are thoughtfully written, whatever their age, is an exceptionally powerful means for generating new ideas relevant to the issues of the present day.
		And we hope to find that reading with respect for the intent of the authors of our study texts also tends to generate conversations in which we are attentive and respectful toward one another.
	www.freelance-academy.org /slowread.htm (2163 words)

	Dangerous Liaisons
		Considerations of authorial intent are clearly to no avail, in that, due to the epistolary format, no such intent can be gleaned from the text.
		Even more maddening than trying to find authorial intent in the pages of Les Liaisons Dangereuses is the (one would think) comparatively simple task of ascertaining the moods and motivations of the characters themselves.
		In a way, reception theory is a sort of protestantism or humanism in the face of such oppressively "catholic" approaches as new criticism and authorial intent.
	www.cyberpat.com /essays/laclos.html (744 words)

	Editing Middle English
		For Housman – an editor of Classical texts himself – the best scholarly editors will be notable by their absence and he suggests that artful editing only occurs when recension and emendation is achieved unobtrusively, maintaining all the while a balance between authorial intent and textual precision.
		In the past thirty years, textual critics have become sceptical about the ability both to discern authorial intent and to access an idealised precise text.
		The last editorial methodology prevalent in twentieth-century editing is “critical editing.” A critical edition – or scholarly edition – is based on a single witness judged to be “the best” or “authorial”; this “copy-text” is then emended by comparing variant readings and all editorial emendations are recorded in a textual apparatus.
	www.chass.utoronto.ca /~cpercy/courses/6361meahan.htm (1717 words)

	Evangelical Theological Society (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Discerning authorial intent is no easy matter, as you well know, so the argument that appeals to the intent of the original drafters seems weak.
		In a collegial and public forum, the appeal to 'authorial intent' also unfairly privileges the recollections and opinions of a few.
		Whatever, their intent may have been, the point is moot.
	www.etsjets.org /members/challenge/members/VanDeWalle-Bernie.html (382 words)

	Overanalyzing the Text: HPfGU#39196: Authorial Intent, Fan Readings and "Canon"
		The problem that I see is that we are dealing with an author who conveys a strong sense of authorial intent, of wishing to control her creation, whilst intentionally withholding parts of it.
		So, for example, one often finds fanfiction which takes as its starting premise the point at which the "real" characters (in other words, the real people upon whom the canon characters were "based") first encounter or first learn of the existence of their fictive counterparts.
		Others are more academic in their approach, allowing for the recognition of factors such as authorial error and strategy.
	www.theennead.com /elkins/hp/archives/000110.html (1539 words)

	ENGL 467: Computer and Text (Spring 2004): Logging On
		Yet there /was/ authorial intent by Queneau when he wrote the ten sonnets and presented them in this specific form.
		I agree that authorial intent exists for the work as a whole.
		His intent may not have been so much in the meaning of each individual poem, but just to simply (or not so simply) show the diversity of language, even when constrained to the form of a poem.
	www.otal.umd.edu /~mgk/courses/spring2004/467/archives/000267.php (998 words)

	Melissa Burns
		The problem of determining authorial intent is nearly unsolvable in the absence of the author and yet it remains the ultimate goal in literary analysis.
		Mansfield Park and analysis of four evident themes, those which are the most commonly discussed in recent critical analysis, we are able both to theorize on probable authorial intent and to examine the value of such an exercise.
		Since there is only the text itself, completed by Austen and released to the public as it is, if readers are to infer any probable authorial intent from the text, they are confined to the contents of the text alone.
	www.jasna.org /persuasions/on-line/vol26no1/burns.htm (5566 words)

	bible.org: Theological Fallacies: Coherence Fallacy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		When we exegete Scripture, the implication is that we are using a method of hermeneutic that values understanding the authorial intent of the passage in order to derive its true meaning (often called "authorial intent hermeneutic" or "historical-grammatical interpretation").
		Concerning this passage a good exegete would tell you that the text does not tell us, based upon authorial intent hermeneutics, who the snake was or what the curse meant.
		In other words, it can be committed by exegetes focused only on the authorial intent of the immediate text.
	www.bible.org /page.asp?page_id=3424 (2720 words)

	Upcoming Events: Apr 12, 2005 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Authorial Intent depicts the impending break up of a couple three days after they move in together.
		In its second scene, the play goes back and replays the events of the first scene, but this time putting the subtext, the author’s intent, on the surface.
		In the third scene, the actors playing the two roles connect after a performance.
	www.theatresource.org /ue04122005.htm (159 words)

	Author's Intent - G.L. Horton
		Copyright law has legal status over authorial intent but not necessarily any ethical or aesthetic significance.
		Beckett is not a model for me as an artist, nor am I attracted to the authorial voice behind his work.
		OTOH, in spite of my resistance, whenever I see Beckett performed just as he insists, by utterly devoted and type-cast actors trained in the Beckett way and directed according to Beckett's specifications, the experience reduces me to a puddle of pity and awe.
	www.stagepage.info /ofnote/writ_authors_intent.html (880 words)

	Overanalyzing the Text: HPfGU#51219: House points and Dumbledore, Authorial Intent, and A Question
		To suggest that he may have made one when it comes to the point award may run contrary to what seems to have been the authorial intent, but it is in no way contrary to the letter, or even really to the spirit of the canon.
		So obviously either the ways in which the scene "failed" for them were not sufficient to turn them off of the books, or their reading of the scene was not, in fact, a "failure" at all, but rather, an alternative type of authorial success.
		I do get the point being made from a real world perspective, but from a literary perspective, the last minute vitory snatch from your foes, was the right choice for a thrilling happy end to the story.
	www.theennead.com /elkins/hp/archives/000198.html (2672 words)

	Overanalyzing the Text: HPfGU#34802: Where's the Canon? (Part One) -- Canonical "suggestion" and plausibility
		Non-canonical sources such as the reader's real life experience, imagination, and understanding of probability, politics, and literary or genre convention are not the enemies of Authorial Intent.
		At the far end of the spectrum on this side lie 'subversive readings,' readings whose proponents know full well that they are not Authorial Intent, and never will be canon, but which because they are not yet explicitly prohibited by the text are still "permissable" and may therefore be legitimately espoused.
		It is quite possible, however, that someone else could make the exact same case for Avery with no subversive intent: they could merely have read the cues of canonical suggestion in a highly idiosyncratic manner and thus come to view what I consider virtually canonically impossible as the Author's Real Intent.
	elkins.theennead.com /hp/archives/000036.html (3544 words)

	Wimsatt and Beardsley
		Criticism which takes account of authorial intention in a work is commiting a fallacy--the intentional fallacy.
		Wimsatt and Beardsley charge criticism which takes account of authorial intention in a work with commiting a fallacy--the intentional fallacy.
		it begins by trying to derive the standard of criticism from the psychological causes of the poem and ends in biography and relativism." While they do not deny the presence of an authorial intention, they deny the importance or usefulness of looking for such an intention as part of analyzing a work.
	www.brysons.net /academic/wimsattbeardsley.html (559 words)

	Modern Hermeneutics: Legitimate Contrasted with Illegitimate
		Although each text is stamped by the personality and style of the human author, the meaning transcends his finite limitations, for he is merely God's mouthpiece.
		God is the author we need to consider when we apply the rule of authorial intent.
		God was able to lead the human author to write about doctrine beyond his understanding and about future events beyond his historical imagination.
	www.themoorings.org /doctrine/issues/hermeneutics/intent.html (2254 words)

	The Meaning of Meaning: The Politics of Reader-Centered Interpretation - TrueU.org : Lecture Hall (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Some are more subtle, though no less intent.
		And what is done to Sidney and his texts can be done to any author and text, whether it be the Constitution of the American founders or the letters of the Apostle Paul â” texts whose traditional interpretation and application the postmodern left hates.
		Without this radical and revolutionary way of reading, neither abortion nor evangelical feminism, for example, could or would find any basis at all in our foundational documents, a basis the left is intent to manufacture ad hoc.
	www.trueu.org /Academics/LectureHall/A000000167.cfm (1525 words)

	July 2003 Archives
		It follows as a matter of course that the statement of a single legislator is never admissible as evidence of intent of the legislature as a whole.
		I think authorial intent does have a purpose beyond the airing of the episode for a couple of reasons.
		Kennedy is for all intents and purposes, Willow's equivalent to Buffy's Riley.
	www.atpobtvs.com /existentialscoobies/archives/jul03_p28.html (18336 words)

	Bible Study: How to Interpret the Bible
		The rule of authorial intent shows this thinking to be in error.
		They ask, "How is this text useful for reinforcing my own religious ideas and promoting a good religious feeling?" Because they set subjective meanings in place of intended meanings, they are violating the rule of authorial intent.
		The basic sense of a passage is the single sense evident to any reader who allows the words their ordinary meanings and who expects the grammar and syntax to shape and combine these meanings in a normal fashion.
	www.themoorings.org /life/basics/Bible3.html (2500 words)

	Theoblogian.org (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Some discard authorial intent as an impossible standard.
		One may claim to find authorial intent with only a cursory examination of the text.
		Another believes that his speculations about the circumstances of the author establishes a better authorial intent.
	www.theoblogian.org (1363 words)

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