My take is, I think that "Death of the Author" as a method of literary critique is a potentially valuable, but very often misused tool. Instead of using it as a justification to analyze a given work as part of a specific historic & social dialogue, of a specific point in time, people use it as a bludgeon to justify imposing on the work whatever they personally happen to feel about themselves, or the world, or even just the present discourses of their own time.
In essence it's sort of a reverse of the more well-known hammer-problem. When the only part of a project you care about is the nails, then every tool appears to be a hammer in disguise.
In essence it’s sort of a reverse of the more well-known hammer-problem. When the only part of a project you care about is the nails, then every tool appears to be a hammer in disguise.
Regardless of what we’re actually talking about I fucking love this analogy.
My take is, I think that "Death of the Author" as a method of literary critique is a potentially valuable, but very often misused tool. Instead of using it as a justification to analyze a given work as part of a specific historic & social dialogue, of a specific point in time, people use it as a bludgeon to justify imposing on the work whatever they personally happen to feel about themselves, or the world, or even just the present discourses of their own time.
In essence it's sort of a reverse of the more well-known hammer-problem. When the only part of a project you care about is the nails, then every tool appears to be a hammer in disguise.
Give me twenty years to come up with responses, I would never think up hidden hammers to nail analogy
Regardless of what we’re actually talking about I fucking love this analogy.