Back in high school I had to write a report on symbolism in this book. The opening described a football field with the goal posts casting shadows like a cross. We went over and over about this religious symbolism. The teacher later found an interview of the author that she played for us and he said "Religious symbolism? No I meant the shadows literally looked like crosses"
Death of the author is the intellectual proper way of saying ackshually the curtains were not just blue and you HAVE to agree with me so that I feel smarter
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I hoped someone would show this to Redditors to seethfarm.
This is great.
Also, new (semi)death of the author dropped:
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Without death of the author, academics and nerds would be severely limited in the amount of navel gazing
they could get away with
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Kill "death of the author". I want literary criticism to be good again.
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That's what happens when you make a hobby into an academic field
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It still exists ya numpty. These approaches to literary analysis coexist rn
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zoz
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Back in high school I had to write a report on symbolism in this book. The opening described a football field with the goal posts casting shadows like a cross. We went over and over about this religious symbolism. The teacher later found an interview of the author that she played for us and he said "Religious symbolism? No I meant the shadows literally looked like crosses"
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Why is it always female english teachers that try to stretch metaphor and simile into some gay meaning.
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well at least she admitted she was wrong, uncommon for female teachers
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Death of the author is the intellectual proper way of saying ackshually the curtains were not just blue and you HAVE to agree with me so that I feel smarter
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Wokies desperately need death of the author so they can forget Chris Avellone
played a huge role in making Fallout what it is.
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lol, ledditors
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I hate this style of writing
how to make your students eyes glaze over when writing a textbook
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