Deconstruction stressed the extent to which "meaning" and "authorial intention" are virtually impossible to fix precisely.
"Braid is something you could show to Roger Ebert and say, 'Here is a work of authorial intention,' " Rohrer says.
Bill Reese, a rare book dealer in New Haven, said the galleys were important because they "address the issue of authorial intention".
You can say that again: it dismisses authorial intention in a manner that would have impressed Derrida.
But we couldn't talk about the book with any confidence of authorial intention if we didn't know who the author was".
History, aesthetics, anthropology, religion, psychology, politics, authorial intention: the works on view will try on as many interpretive frames as we care to toss around them.
From this rule, it follows that the process of inspecting and interpreting the text is also a process of analyzing authorial intention.
O'Connor's ability to create characters and situations that resonate as powerfully as they do results in meanings that, as she herself acknowledged, ramify beyond authorial intention.
The main claim is that because the reader, ultimately, has control over the meaning, the idea of authorial intention becomes redundant.
With their suspicion of "grand narratives," "essentialism" and even "authors," postmodernist critics came to value rupture over continuity, contradictions over coherence, and the casual intrusion of social flotsam and jetsam over authorial intention.
Can Hugo's monumental novel – Les Misérables boasts the largest vocabulary in all French fiction and enough Latin phrases to offer (by authorial intention) a free course in his second language – provide a mirror to the injustices of our own times?
