Thanks to the Internet, we have become expert parsers of language, meaning, and authorial intent.
Once you're thinking about authorial intent, that awareness starts to creep into your own work.
What does it mean to preserve or destabilise "original" authorial intent?
The centerpiece, "Authorial Intent," with Laurel Holland and Michael Micalizzi, is an inventive gem that upends audience expectations not once, but twice (1 20).
When authorial intent is removed from the game world, we lose the one thing that bothered to check what we were doing.
This heuristic that the directory structure of a web site reflects authorial intent on the part of the site designer is often, but not always, true.
He needed to show people that the enchantment of a story was a seduction, that "historical" clues about authorial intent and about "meaning" could be manipulated.
With the introduction of a disabled girl, "diminutive and crooked", working at the B&B, the story begins to show signs of more complicated authorial intent.
It's a literary experiment, however accidental or forced by circumstance, that shatters through stale academic debates about authorial intent and semantic autonomy.
Part of that was undoubtedly due to the publicity, but maybe authorial intent, as scrambled as an egg in this case, doesn't count for much after all, as it shouldn't count in judging Withers's work.
"Authorial Intent" is a clever two-hander that begins as an interesting enough portrait of a couple (Laurel Holland and Mr. Micalizzi) who have just moved in together but morphs into something entirely different.
