Authorial

Word AUTHORIAL
Character 9
Hyphenation au tho ri al
Pronunciations N/A

Definitions and meanings of "Authorial"

What do we mean by authorial?

Of, coming from, or typical of an author (especially of books).

The practice of inferring information about an author from the habits, conversation or biography of their characters. This is especially marked in relation to first-person, confessional and/or debut novels. Urban Dictionary

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The word "authorial" in example sentences

And that is what you seem to mean by the term authorial intention. ❋ Unknown (2009)

I'm a bit surprised by how interested in authorial intentionality people are; I posted "Intentionally Omitted" primarily to clarify what Drout, Hodges and I were dancing around for the One Ringers. ❋ Richard Nokes (2005)

The only way wherein authorial (privileged) intent can be kept is if the author is also the illustrator or artist, otherwise, there will always be a duel of visions. ❋ Dean Francis Alfar (2004)

A growing interest in authorial autonomy and a "work-oriented" aesthetic pervaded theatrical criticism. [ ❋ Unknown (2005)

There are some writers for whom style supersedes character, for whom the "authorial" character is the main character, and their fiction doesn't suffer in the least from it. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Not surprisingly, the different temporal modes occasion very different kinds of "authorial" and "readerly" satisfaction (terms that I am asking to signify both lived and representational acts). ❋ Unknown (2006)

A slightly different kind of authorial intention!? ❋ Richard Nokes (2006)

And Herrmann's theory is that Hitchcock came to resent that; there's a kind of authorial envy there. ❋ Unknown (2007)

One girl, the lacklustre Mary Macgregor, is destined to die in a fire, “running hither and thither”, as Spark repeatedly tells us, without any kind of authorial commentary. ❋ Tim Stretton (2007)

Again, when it comes to this series, I also make no apologies for loving it like a big lovable thing, and being unable to have any kind of authorial objectivity. ❋ Yuki_onna (2006)

Another reason for 2-3 enemies other than some kind of authorial intent may be that designers have a metric of fun in their minds, and that killing slightly less powerful enemies in groups of 2-3 simply is, for some physiological reason, a most satisfying form of play. ❋ Unknown (2004)

Is "Lavengro" the work of a literary amateur who, yielding at will to every kind of authorial self-indulgence, fails to find artistic expression for the life moving within him -- fails to project an individuality that his friends knew to have been unique? ❋ George Henry Borrow (1842)

but with Ford's work it is admirable because it is a kind of authorial legerdemain -- the reader is lulled into thinking less is going on than actually is. ❋ Unknown (2004)

The stories that most stand out in my memory are the ones that pop up without explicit authorial intent, the ones that just happen to coalesce into some strange and surprising mini story. ❋ Ben Abraham (2009)

One of the things I love about these books is the wryness of the authorial tone. ❋ Unknown (2009)

One has to be careful here, because you don't want to lump ordinary elements of someones personal style and authorial voice into this category — those are good things to have — but rather focus on those little tics that breed laziness by substituting for words or constructions that might be fresher or more apt for the particular piece. ❋ Unknown (2009)

"I just finished playing Authorial Snap with [Lindqvist's] [Let The Right One In]. [Oskar] is such a shoe-in replacement for the author. Wonder if he was bullied as a child too?" ❋ Ulan Bator III (2009)

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