Author's Intention
I just realized why an author's intention cannot always be the basis for interpretation. When one incorporates elements of a prior tradition without full understanding of the intentions in that tradition, one does not negate the meanings of its tropes. And considering no literature exists in isolation, there are prior intentions of which the author could have no knowledge that easily could be locked within us (or as is rarely contended, not).
Yes, I'm being pretentious but I've been reading far too much post-modernist criticism of medieval Japanese drama lately.
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I just realized why an author's intention cannot always be the basis for interpretation. When one incorporates elements of a prior tradition without full understanding of the intentions in that tradition, one does not negate the meanings of its tropes. And considering no literature exists in isolation, there are prior intentions of which the author could have no knowledge that easily could be locked within us (or as is rarely contended, not).
Yes, I'm being pretentious but I've been reading far too much post-modernist criticism of medieval Japanese drama lately.
ESA(20031108.1)
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