dmarley: Detail of (alleged) portrait of Christopher Marlowe) (Marlowe)
2003-08-09 02:25 pm

Reviewing and so on

In response to the responses to [livejournal.com profile] destina's already-famous post, [livejournal.com profile] zvi_likes_tv said in this post:

Underlying my viewpoint is a distrust in the ability of authors to argue from the text they actually published as opposed to the story in their head. [...] Too often, I think authors take the position that their intentions, motivations, and interpretations are the important part of a story, regardless of whether or not those are communicated to the audience.

This got me thinking )