However, an intentionalist would attempt to approach authorial intention, even though it might be clear that the real intention of the author is irrecoverable.

He values agency over structure and stresses the importance of authorial intentions.

Hirsch's hermeneutic books are controversial, and his defense of authorial intention remains a minority position in Academia, though a widely cited one.

The test is not fidelity to authorial intention (a chimera in any case) but artistic quality of the result.

The meaning of a text is not neatly determined by authorial intention and cannot be recreated without problem by a reader.

An intentionalist editor would constantly investigate the documents for traces of authorial intention.

In many cases, the evidence would make it almost impossible to decide what the authorial intention was at any given point.

It is constrained by the knowledge of what its object is - the specifying of authorial intention.

At the same time, Jin believed that authorial intention is less important than the commentator's reading of a story.

All assumed that the text had its own meaning, independent of all authorial intentions and period backgrounds.