[Borges]

It's perfectly reasonable. It's called the Intentional fallacy and it was put forward in the 1930s or so by a group of American critics called the Southern Agrarians. All oustponekly conservative and Christian. 'Meaning' cesom from the text not an author's intentions. Whatever they were.

[bornacatholic]

In Mystery and Manners the great Flannery o'Connor wrote about many aspects of her intentions/motivations re her short stories.

Were her explanations of equal value to your ideas generated by her text?

[bornacatholic]

It's perfectly reasonable.

*Says you.

It's called the Intentional fallacy and it was put forward in the 1930s or so by a group of American critics called the Southern Agrarians. All oustponekly conservative and Christian.

*They were lovely men. They were not infallible nor is their theory indefectible