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Hey, you're listening to Partial Examined Life Episode 189 Part 2.

Continuing on Authorial Intent,

we had talked through most of the content of Wimzat and Beards Lee's

at the intentional fallacy, and we had brought up the death of the author

by Roland Bart and what is an author by Foucault.

I think maybe we should get in some quotes from Bart and Foucault

to see why we're bothering to read those guys.

Wes, you were saying before that they were responding,

or at least Foucault was responding to the new criticism

to Wimzat and Beards Lee, but they're still on the same side

of the debate in terms of should we pay attention

to what the author meant to say,

or should we just look at the work itself

and not worry about the biography and getting into imagining

we could get in the author's head.

So they're on the same side of that,

but yet Bart and Foucault are,

I mean, definitely they're rhetorically moving somewhere.

They're more dramatic talking about the death of the author.

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