10 Widely Misunderstood Pieces of Writing HD

Support our efforts to make videos about what we want: https://www.patreon.com/toptenz/overview Literary critics have invented a host of phrases and concepts to separate artists from their art. By far the best known is “death of the author,” which comes from a 1967 essay by Roland Barthes. Essentially, the notion is to imagine that the author cannot be asked for their intent, or how their own life experiences shaped their writing, so the theorist’s interpretation is at least as valid as the author’s intention–provided said interpretation is reasonably derived from the text. →Subscribe for new videos every day! https://www.youtube.com/user/toptenznet?sub_confirmation=1 Find more lists at: http://www.toptenz.net Entertaining and educational top 10 lists from TopTenzNet! Subscribe to our Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TopTenz/ Business inquiries to admin@toptenz.net Other TopTenz Videos: Top 10 People Who Helped Their Lovers Escape From Prison https://youtu.be/8HPkUocOHM8 Top 10 Unbelievable Ways to Sneak Your Way Past Security https://youtu.be/z6eXL6JOjkg Text version: https://www.toptenz.net/10-widely-misunderstood-pieces-of-writing.php Coming up: 10. The Hunchback of Notre Dame 9. The Legend of Sleepy Hollow 8. Jabberwocky 7. Harrison Bergeron 6. The Satanic Verses 5. Valley of the Dolls 4. Dracula 3. The Great Gatsby 2. Don Quixote 1. Slaughterhouse Five Source/Further reading: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AIIWy3TZ1eI https://www.techtimes.com/articles/89829/20151001/real-history-sleepy-hollow-much-legend-ties-series.htm https://youtu.be/RZ949PoJuEw https://youtu.be/LbGbU65_Rbg https://youtu.be/nfksZSOhYco https://youtu.be/bchuQDVU2RQ https://youtu.be/u-TXJMKVa_g https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2016/10/27/something-blood-part-1/ https://youtu.be/rARN6agiW7o https://youtu.be/5XDkloqGYiQ https://youtu.be/JBY9qJpU0W8 http://www.thebluediamondgallery.com/tablet/images/critic.jpg https://www.flickr.com/photos/quinnanya/4498503466 https://www.flickr.com/photos/r00s/25481987005 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Hunchbackposter.jpg https://m.media-amazon.com/images/M/MV5BNTg1ODViOTctZGNjZS00MDE2LTgyZWQtY2M4ZjIyNjIwYTM4XkEyXkFqcGdeQXVyMDI2NDg0NQ@@._V1_SY1000_CR0,0,661,1000_AL_.jpg https://ru.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A4%D0%B0%D0%B9%D0%BB:Gustave_Brion_-_Notre-Dame_de_Paris_1.jpg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AIIWy3TZ1eI https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Notre_Dame_de_Paris_Victor_Hugo_Manuscrit_1.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Gosselin_Hugo_1831_Johannot.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ichabod_crane.jpg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:John_Quidor_-_The_Headless_Horseman_Pursuing_Ichabod_Crane_-_Google_Art_Project.jpg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:The_Headless_Horseman.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:What_fearful_shapes_and_shadows_beset_his_path_-_The_Legend_of_Sleepy_Hollow_(1899),_frontispiece_-_BL.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Edwin_Austin_Abbey_-_Ichabod_Cr