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- Jun 9, 2013
I don't know if there's a term for it but many critics, even Academic types, misunderstand "Death of the Author". It's suppose to be about examining the work itself seperate from the creator.....yet somewhere down the line it got twisted into "So now I'M the author!". This is why you have so many hacks running around insisting their political ideas are absolute truths in fiction.It does speak to Bob's egocentrism. He has embraced "The Death of the Author" to the point where he believes that he--as a consumer and cultural critic--has a more authoritative interpretation on who and what Mario is. Never mind the fact that it is Shigeru Miyamoto and the staff at Nintendo that create the games in the first place. Leave it to Bob to believe that he knows better than the freaking godfather Nintendo as we know it.
This kind of criticism towards the trend usually gets handwaved as "anti-intellectual" for dismissing a form of examining works but maybe you're just an idiot when everyone laughs at your 20 page essay on why Pokemon is INHERETLY about the glory of communist dictatorships. Maybe you're strangling creativity and discussion when you boil everything down to overly simplified "metaphors" for WW2 or the Civil Rights era and refusing anything else.