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Author: Haven

Oct 4th 2008 at 7:45:38 PM

I think DeathOfTheAuthor works. One way or the other, we should have an article on the Death Of The Author, even if it's not this one. From WordOfGod we have:

"Note that many people reject the notion of Word Of God, considering something to be canon only if it appeared in the original source material, and that if the creator wanted a certain fact to be canon that s/he should have included it in the work to begin with. Some people go even further, considering the uncertainty and ambiguity of canon to be a good thing and decry the Word Of God as shackling the imagination and interpretations of the fans — a belief supported by modern literary criticism, notably in Wimstatt and Beardsley's "The Intentional Fallacy" and Barthes' "Death of the Author," both of which argue that the author has no right to control what other people think of his or her work. "

So I'm glad we at least acknowledged that idea on this Wiki beforehand.

re: "Also, Death Of The Author isn't a good name because it would make people think it's about Author Existence Failure."\
So we just add in "Not to be confused with AuthorExistenceFailure". "Death of the Author" is already a phrase with cultural and scholarly authority behind it, it means a specific thing, I think we should go ahead with it.