Kanzenshuu

I respect the theory, but I personally don’t follow it. My life experience as a lawyer makes me believe there can’t be a single way to interpret laws or art. I believe this stuff is about discovering the authorial intent and the reader’s feelings and trying to create a dialogue where both learn ...

Once upon a time, I wrote an essay on here about Death of the Author and what it meant for the Dragon Ball franchise and the art of analysis. I have since looked at that essay and cringed. Really hard. It was a bad and unorganized mess. I discovery wrote my way through it without any thought of ...

So awhile I spent months of time on researching the topic because, quite frankly, I'm sick of nobody putting in the time and effort to truly define what makes a good father and why that's how they define it when making this argument.

So I actually went to my local library and read up on the topic ...

You make a lot of good points. But I've always seen Goku as more of a classical hero/anti-hero. He does love his family, care for friends and the well being of Earth. But at the same time, he can fight the urges that come with his inherent race, in loving a good fight and a challenge. And more than ...

This one's going to be a lot shorter than my other post I think because it's not exactly a topic I've written and re-rewrote constantly but I think it's worth talking about.

I've had to do some digging after I saw a comment in passing about "so-and-so is saying Goku's an anti-hero" and while I ...

I think what he's getting at is that, if you want to look at a piece of art with authorial intent in mind, you must both experience the work itself, and learn what the author's explicit intent was. Those are two distinct things that you need. When you are looking only at the work itself, explicit ...

Another thought related to the OP:

Sometimes, it seems like people want there to be one true interpretation and anything else must be disregarded as wrong. The problem is, there may be many...and they might all be right!

But nope, nope, some people can't stand sharing the "rightness" of their ...

Toriyama, in particular, is an author that makes "death of the author" easy because he forgets things and he isn't all that given to keeping all the details consistent.

However, imo, a "death of the author" mechanism is something that should only used as a last resort. Whenever possible, the ...

precita wrote:What if Toriyama doesn't really exist? What if...Toriyama is just a dream?

Asking the real questions, here.

Very interesting stuff. I've got a few things I'd like to say:

1) Agree completely with the Marine example, the Chi-Chi and Goku dynamic exists in real life and many people are perfectly okay with it.

2) Why does the fact that Toriyama supposedly (I have no source for this) states “I intended for ...

"The Death of the Author" (French: La mort de l'auteur) is a 1967 essay by the French literary critic and theorist Roland Barthes. Barthes' essay argues against traditional literary criticism's practice of incorporating the intentions and biographical context of an author in an interpretation of a ...

Haha. It's not really rambling, well, I rambled about a specific section of the fanbase and its harassment towards GoChi fans, but if you read the whole essay, you'll find that "Death of the Author" is a real concept.

I've been trying to find a place for quality discussion regarding deeper analysis of Dragon Ball's world, writing, characters and all that fun stuff but have so far been... disappointed to say the least. I've recently been encouraged by friends and followers to give these forums a real chance as ...