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   Authorship and the Question of Intent
   A central philosophical debate surrounding authorship concerns authorial intent. This concept posits that the definitive meaning of a text resides in what the originator intended to convey. Post-structuralist critiques, notably those advanced by Roland Barthes, argue for the "death of the author," suggesting that meaning is generated entirely by the reader through the interplay of linguistic signs, rendering the author’s historical intentions irrelevant or inaccessible. ${[2]}$
   Conversely, disciplines reliant on sour…