# Authors and texts

Canonical page: https://dominiklukes.net/writing/2005-12-04-authors-and-texts

The post argues that an author's stated intention is only one perspective on a text and does not conclusively determine what the text means or does.

Blog post · Hermeneutic Heretic · 4 December 2005

## Where it lives

- [Read it on Hermeneutic Heretic (web.archive.org)](https://web.archive.org/web/https://hermeneuticheretic.net/2005/12/04/authors-and-texts/)

## About this item

- Type: Blog post
- Published: 4 December 2005
- Published in: Hermeneutic Heretic
- Language: English

Topics: authorship, narrative, cognition.

## Related

- [Welcome to Dominik's Week in Thought](https://dominiklukes.net/writing/2005-11-17-welcome-to-dominiks-week-in-thought) (Blog post · 17 November 2005)
- [Some misconceptions by the defenders of the Theory of Evolution](https://dominiklukes.net/writing/2005-11-18-reason-fact-and-fiction-on-evolution-intelligent-designs-five-favorit) (Blog post · 18 November 2005)
- [Access vs. close-reading journalism as a metaphor for educational standards](https://dominiklukes.net/writing/2005-11-21-access-vs-close-reading-journalism-as-a-metaphor-for-educational-stan) (Blog post · 21 November 2005)
- [Digitizing literature and styles of reading](https://dominiklukes.net/writing/2005-12-03-digitizing-literature-and-styles-of-reading) (Blog post · 3 December 2005)
- [News reporting as a cognitive (speech) act](https://dominiklukes.net/writing/2006-01-09-news-reporting-as-a-cognitive-speech-act) (Blog post · 9 January 2006)
- [Trouble in Ambridge: Optical illusions and hypostesized narratives](https://dominiklukes.net/writing/2006-10-27-trouble-in-ambridge-optical-illusion-and-hypostesized-narratives) (Blog post · 27 October 2006)

Section: [Writing](https://dominiklukes.net/writing)