1. Fair warning: I'm going to be dabbling in some literary theory. Feel free to ignore next few tweets if that's not your thing.
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2. Famous Barthean "Death of the Author" was culmination of earlier critiques of authorial intent from Wimsatt, Frye, etc.
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3. I actually think Frye's quite moderate formulation on question of intent in "Anatomy of Criticism" is best approach.
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4. Frye: what the author says about own work "has a peculiar interest, but not a peculiar authority."
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5. To apply Frye.If Orson Welles gave interview expounding on what Rosebud "means" we'd be naturally interested, but can't be "final answer"
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6. To say a work of art is ambiguous is simply to say that it is open to multiple interpretations. Which is to say, it is rich.
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