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What about the author? I can see this question creeping up upon me from several directions. Did she intend that her books have the social and political effects that they have had? Is she responsible for those effects?
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W.K. Wimsatt and M.C. Beardsley, ‘The Intentional Fallacy’, Sewanee Review 54, 1946, pp. 468–88.
Roland Barthes, ‘The Death of the Author’, Image-Music-Text, trans. Stephen Heath (London: Fontana, 1977).
Karl Miller, Authors (Oxford: Clarendon, 1989), p. 164.
Sean Burke, The Death and Return of the Author: Criticism and Subjectivity in Barthes, Foucault and Derrida (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1992), p. 154.
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Gupta, S. (2009). The Irrelevance of J.K. Rowling. In: Re-Reading Harry Potter. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230279711_6
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