John Farrell argues in Variations of Authorial Intention that intention is a central if complex feature of all literature (and, of course, all communication): “Farrell denies that the text of any ...

This post was updated Feb. 22 at 7:22 p.m. Katie Kitamura explored the tension between authorial intent and interpretation in her book talk Thursday. Kitamura – the award-winning author of “Intimacies ...

Over at Vox, my friend Todd VanDerWerff has a good primer on the critical concept of authorial intent, the idea that what a creator of a work thinks about what they have put out into the world ought ...

The term may seem vaguely pretentious and self-serving, but there's an element of being a "gatekeeper" when you're overseeing arts coverage for a publication. If that weren't the... The term may seem ...