Comment by rland
6 years ago
“Goes beyond what the author intended to convey” — there is no such thing. What the author intended to convey was exactly what was written.
Interpretations differ, and hence a literary critic is born.
6 years ago
“Goes beyond what the author intended to convey” — there is no such thing. What the author intended to convey was exactly what was written.
Interpretations differ, and hence a literary critic is born.
There are two things. 1) what the author wrote, and 2) what they meant to write. Whey may have wanted to communicate something but failed at it. As long as the author is alive, or as long as they left notes or explanatory works, you can learn it. But going beyond these two things and claiming "this is what's in the text" is where literary criticism becomes bullshit.