Hence the specific word *author* (which connotes "authority"), which he wanted to replace with "writer" (or "scriptor") Obviously any written work is written down by a person, and obviously this fact is relevant They just never had total control of that process
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In fact "Death of the Author" often means asserting that you ARE allowed to "drag the writer into it personally" when the writer doesn't want you to That if a writer says, e.g., "Leave my religion out of it, it has nothing to do with this book" you're allowed to say "Bullshit"
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If a writer says "The bigoted stuff you see in my writing has nothing to do with my beliefs, I give you my word I didn't put that in intentionally" you can say "You're lying" or "You're in denial" or even "I don't care, it doesn't matter, it's still a bigoted text"
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i want to express my quiet and fervent admiration for someone on twitter dot bird being familiar enough with New Criticism to make this statement
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I feel like this is extremely relevant to the conversation as well as summing it up better than I ever could. (credit: https://emisobsessed.tumblr.com/post/637875795179847680/prokopetz-death-of-the-author-treating-the …)pic.twitter.com/cGhdWMG22W
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Thats usually how i understood it. DOTA is just that there are interpretations of a work that exist outside of the whatever the author intends
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I actually got to experience this firsr hand once. I wrote a poem in high school and published it on one of those sites that lets you upload stuff for free. I got a comment about how excellent a particular leitmotif was. Thing is, that wasnt intentional, so it kinda blew my mind
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(They haven't read the essay even though it's short and easy)
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I have read the essay. It doesn’t change that people will come at me with “disappearance of the author” takes if I don’t note the stance I’m taking DOTA is also a perspective several authors came to at around the same times, Derrida isn’t the only source
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I mean Derrida said, "there is only the text," meaning that everything is within the text and dumdums still argued he was trying to exclude extratextual concerns.
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I have a PhD and have written about Derrida and other people in this particular critical moment for journals. I am not a “dumdum”. DOTA has been used to undermine my arguments bc other people assume the things you’re attributing to me
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