December Patreon Panel: This Saturday!

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Our December Patreon panel is early in the month this time, coming up on Saturday, December 6th at 8 p.m.! We’ll be talking about Death of the Author by Roland Barthes (you can read it for free on the Internet Archive using this link) and related issues. If you’re a $7/month backer of our Patreon, I hope you’ll join us. And if you’re not yet a backer, I hope you’ll take a minute to check out all the awesome benefits we offer our supporters and help our indie press keep the doors open with your monthly support!

Panel Title: Let’s Talk “Death of the Author”

Description: In 1967, Roland Barthes wrote the essay The Death of the Author, criticizing reliance on authorial intention as the ultimate means of deriving meaning from a work, emphasizing instead the importance of each individual reader’s interpretation. Since then, the field of literary criticism has widely expanded, and now it’s common to see a full spectrum of types of interpretation, from those in which the old style of authorial intention still retains supremacy on the end of the spectrum, to, on the other end, those in which authorial intention is entirely dismissed or ignored in favor of solely elevating reader interpretation. In this panel, we’ll discuss the original essay, our views of the importance of authorial intent, our views on the importance on reader interpretation, where our own views place us on the spectrum, and specific cases of “Death of the Author” that we have personally grappled with.

Content Warning: This panel may include discussions of transphobia, sexual misconduct, or other issues with authors and/or crimes committed by authors, as it is likely that individuals such as J. K. Rowling and Neil Gaiman will factor in to our conversation.

Want to read Barthes’s article before the panel? You can do so! It’s only 8 pages long, and it’s available on archive.org.

Date: Saturday, December 6th
Time: 8 p.m. Eastern time (converter)

Panelists: Rhosyn Goodfellow, callmesalticidae, Zel Howland, Shannon Lippert, May Barros, YF Ollwell, and Vee Sloane

Nina Waters will serve as moderator.

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