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Episode 261: Death of the Author

Very Bad Wizards

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The Importance of Knowing the Intentions of the Author

I almost never would want to know what the author intended, right? And I think it's not fruitful. The price where any they all just go wrong is in trying to come up with some hard and fast general rule of interpretation. That indicates that there's more abstract kinds of art. It's not a hard and fast rule but typically authors intentions there mean less or could actually be a disadvantage.

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