The problem with this is that the author creates the world, they would seem to have some authority on its interpretation, if only from the point of view that they knew the world just not every detail had to be mentioned.
Do you read The Hobbit and give the same weight to the later revisions as you would to piece of fan fiction rewriting the riddle scene?
This type of thought that the story can't be revised by the author leads to thinking that Han actually shot first...
A little more seriously, the idea "That a story is a work that, once finished, stands alone" is rather a modern concept that only makes sense in a textual society. I think to some degree this is shame, and something that pre-literary society (or maybe just childhood) had for an advantage; story telling was more fun without someone shouting "That's not what it said on page 247!". Although even children seem to key in pretty quickly when a story is told differently then it had been in the past...
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Date: 2007-10-22 01:14 am (UTC)Do you read The Hobbit and give the same weight to the later revisions as you would to piece of fan fiction rewriting the riddle scene?
This type of thought that the story can't be revised by the author leads to thinking that Han actually shot first...
A little more seriously, the idea "That a story is a work that, once finished, stands alone" is rather a modern concept that only makes sense in a textual society. I think to some degree this is shame, and something that pre-literary society (or maybe just childhood) had for an advantage; story telling was more fun without someone shouting "That's not what it said on page 247!". Although even children seem to key in pretty quickly when a story is told differently then it had been in the past...