Understanding Authorship: The Role of Authors in Shaping Meaning
Explore the complex interplay between authors, authority, and interpretation in the realm of literature and law. Delve into the significance of authorship in determining meaning and discover the societal implications of authorial presence in various contexts.
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Theory=? Abstract Concepts Where opinions come from
Why use it? intervening in otherwise inaccessible debates and discourses
Why is School Important? Science Math Writing Reading
What is an Author? author can be a verb as well as a noun, and that even the noun names a social action how someone who authors becomes an author (or how author changes from a verb to a noun) is intimately tied to the question of canonicity Eg. James Joyce vs Stephen King- which one will most likely be studied at university?
Where is Authorship everyday? Constitution Patent Laws Journalism Court Cases-> Interpreting the Law & intentions of its creators
Author/Authority authorship is tied intimately to authority
Do meanings or readings cancel Each other out? Who is the author here?
Assumptions: Even if we don t know a thing about a text s author, the notion that a piece has an author that someone, somewhere originally had this experience, thought this thing committed it to writing allows the soothing conclusion that it means something, even if we don t quite know what : If its author were here, he or she could tell us what the text means, and even if we have no access to the author, the very fact that a work has an author behind it seems to guarantee meaningfulness
Once the authors privilege has been debunked, meaning is then no longer found but rather produced question we ask of the text is no longer what did the author really mean? but rather how does this text produce meanings?
Occupy WallStreet 1. 2. 3. First reactions to it & now. What did you think then and now? What methods did they use to communicate & convey message? Think about to typical definition of author. Does it apply here? Why or Why not? Foucault postulated that in every society the production of discourse is at once controlled, selected, organized and distributed according to a certain number of procedures, whose role is to avert its powers and its dangers (216). So how exactly is discourse powerful, and how might it possibly be construed as dangerous ? How is that seen in Occupy? Or the coverage of Occupy? How do labels like political or unpatriotic or emotional, when attached to discourse, serve to contain its effects? What labels were given to Occupy? Which do you think serve? What ultimately did authorship do to authority in Occupy? How does this effect change? 4. 5. 6.
