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    It is not the case that Roland Barthes' 'death of the author' thesis, grounded in structuralist semiotics, holds that a text's meaning is produced in reading, not deposited by authorial intention or lived experience.

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    • 1.If meaning is purely reader-generated, the same text would have infinite contradictory meanings, making literary criticism and evaluation incoherent.
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    • 2.Authors deliberately craft texts with specific structural choices designed to constrain reader interpretation, suggesting meaning isn't reader-determined.
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    • 3.We can meaningfully distinguish between authorial meaning and misreading only if texts possess determinable content independent of individual readers.
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    • 1.Readers bring different cultural contexts and interpretive frameworks that inevitably shape how they construct meaning from any text.
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    • 2.Authorial intentions are epistemically inaccessible; we can only infer them from textual evidence, making them unreliable meaning anchors.
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    • 3.Texts generate meanings their authors never consciously intended, as demonstrated by unconscious linguistic patterns and historical recontextualization.
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