KnowraIntentional fallacyLinked fromLinked fromThe 11 pages that link to Intentional fallacy, each with the reason it gives.All 11Related 6Compared with 5IntertextualityCompared with: Intertextual interpretation can exceed what an author consciously intended to borrow or evoke.New CriticismRelated: It excludes authorial intention from the evidence used to interpret a text.Historical criticismCompared with: Historical criticism may use authorial circumstances, while this principle rejects intention as final authority.Reader-response criticismRelated: Reader-response criticism likewise rejects authorial intention as the sole source of meaning.Reception theoryCompared with: Reception theory also resists authorial intention as the sole authority, but centers audiences instead.DeconstructionRelated: Deconstruction likewise resists treating authorial intention as the final authority on interpretation.Death of the AuthorRelated: This New Criticism principle anticipates the theory’s challenge to authorial intention.Leni RiefenstahlRelated: It frames debate over whether Riefenstahl's claims about artistic intent settle her films' political meaning.Literary theoryRelated: It challenges interpretations that treat an author's stated purpose as decisive evidence.Literary biographyCompared with: It questions whether biographical evidence about intention can settle a work’s meaning.Umberto EcoCompared with: Eco distinguishes authorial intention from the interpretive constraints a text provides.