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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Firebeetle" data-source="post: 2775816" data-attributes="member: 34506">Of course we do, we're English majors!Absolutely! There are people who devote their entire lives to knowing the writing of a single author who know far about it than the author ever could.  You see, literature is a seperate entity of it's creator.  Like a child, after you've given birth, that book will be read and seen in thousands of different ways by different readers.  There was once a school of thought that there were "correct readings" of books by polling readers and finding out what they thought it meant.  Not only did these results differ from the author's intent, but differ from year to year and certainly generation by generation.  Forgive me while I laugh heartily, Professor Jezter, but I've been in plenty of classes were we've discussed allegory, symbolism, nuance, and other things without having any idea about the intentions of the author.  That's what you are talking about, author's intent.  What did the author state he or she intended to write.  A.) Most author's don't, often delibritely being obscure on the subject. B.) Any creative product belongs as much, if not more, to the readers than the writer.  Did Harriet Beecher Stowe MEAN to fuel the Civil War with "Uncle Tom's Cabin"? Probably not, but Lincoln credited her with doing so.  Was Twain being racist or equitible when he wrote "Huckleberry Finn"?  That debate has raged for decades.You can disagree with me until you're blue in the face, but the entire literary establishment is behind me on this one.  Allegory exists regardless of whether the author states it does.  As I've said before, "What does the author know?"  If you have further questions or comments, please refer to your local literature professor.I have to say, I've never heard of suppousal being used before. I'm not saying it isn't, I'm just not familiar with that point of view. I don't know what school of thought suppousal comes from, but it wasn't in my literary criticism book. I SUPPOUSE I should go to my alma mater and ask for my money back.  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f61b.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":p" title="Stick out tongue    :p"  data-smilie="7"data-shortname=":p" /></blockquote>

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