REPLIES: Discussion Thread: Authorial Intent

REPLIES:

MA Students: You should make a minimum of two peer responses that engage with the initial post and offer a meaningful response. That response can take several forms such as adding to the post by contributing something toward the meaning or by offering other potential reactions or any number of possible responses.

250 WORDS EACH REPLY.

Texts make a kind of shared knowledge. There is an authors intended meaning and a readers interpretive meaning. In reading Chapter 1 of Hirschs book, it is easy to see that meaning even for the author can change. Chapter 2 gives way to meaning and implication and a discussion on a critics objective, namely that those attempting to uncover the authors meaning in a text may learn something, but those seeking only their own meanings will learn nothing new.

MA Students: For this second discussion, please write about what you have discovered about the meaning(s) of the text you are using for this course.

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along with chapter 1 and 2 of the reading.

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