BugDevil posted:
death of the author.
Please don't use that phrase like it constitutes an argument...
Good thing it's a fact, not argument.
Are you seriously going to claim that an essay written by one person from over 50 years ago is the universally accepted truth? Well okay then. You may follow Barthe's principles, but not everyone should. It's a one-sided view of literary works.
Well it depends how you look at it. I actually used to think death of the author is just a lazy way to ignore what author is saying and make up your own interpretation. But turns out it isn't like that and most people simply misunderstand what the idea is actually about. It's not about disregarding author completely, but rather, what they say about their work has no more value than what anyone else says. Only thing that should matter is text. If author wanted something to be include in their work, it should be included in the text. Similarly if they didn't want something to be there, they shouldn't have put it there.
That being said, obviously author is person who know best what they work and intention is about. Most authors (cough J.K. Rowling cough) have good grasp of their work and can be good source of information about it. So most of the time, there's no real reason to not take their word into account. If you want to get better understanding of reasons and creative choices of something, you pretty much have to start looking into outside sources.
That's why I never said you're wrong for taking that interview seriously and basing your interpretation of the movie with it in mind. I actually only brought up death of the author, because in your previous post you worded it in a way that sounded like that interview completely invalidated possibility for yuri interpretation, so I wanted to give you a out, but in your next post you explained that you take authorial intent seriously and I respected that.
The point of death of the author is that instead blindly following author's word, you should be focusing more on actual text and making your own interpretations based mainly on it. If what author says is contradicted or not directly in the text, you have the option to disagree with them. You're free to listen, but you're not obligated to take their word as gospel. You shouldn't be required to do research on author's live or looking for their commentary etc. in order to understand what they wanted to convey and meaning behind their work. Everything you need should be present in the text. Also authors are humans too and they can make mistakes. Even If someone had intention to show a certain thing, they can still fail to properly express it in the text. And going back to Euphonium is a perfect example of it. Yamada said movie is no homo, but that in no way invalids reading it as homo, because the text she created, supports that interpretation. She is free to talk about what her intention was, but she has no control over what people will interpret from her work.
It might came out wrong, because it was the first time I ever used it in the conversation, so I had no clue how to react to uncertain's post, especially since their attitude was pretty rude too.
last edited at May 4, 2019 6:17PM
