author's purpose
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The author’s purpose is not to define Hitchcock, but to champion him in the debate over the question, “can we separate the art from the artist?”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 31, 2026
Some retellings of celebrated stories enact a kind of anastrophe on a higher level, lifting one author’s plot to another author’s purpose — and in the process reversing the polarity of the story.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 20, 2023
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- the main message
- literary goal
- the takeaway
- reason for writing
- writer's intent
Possible Antonyms
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- aimlessness
- accidental outcome
- purposelessness
- reader interpretation
- unintended meaning
