Cut Strings: Chapter 41: Out of Body Experience

Finally updated my fic Cut Strings with a new chapter:

On AO3

On FFNET

At last it is updated.

Death of the Author

There's a common implication I've seen regarding Death of the Author that I feel disregards what it is at its core.  Death of the Author has nothing to do with the morality of the author or even how good or bad their own interpretation of  their work is.

Death of the Author is entirely about how the author's background and intentions are unnecessary to include in meaningful interpretation of a work.  It's about an interpretation that draws purely on the text of the work itself.  

Practicing death of the author neither does anything to let an author off the hook for their misdeeds as some critics of it seem to presume, nor does it somehow cleanse a work of any textual issues inherent in the work itself, as some who might claim to practice it seem to imply.  It's simply the idea that one's interpretation of a work doesn't need to consider the author's background or intent to provide meaningful insight into that work.