The Relationship of Fiction to The Author's Reality

This book deals with the most controversial 20th century theories about authorship. Important theories such as The Intentional Fallacy by William Wimsatt and Monroe Beardsley, The Death of the Author by Roland Barthes, What is an Author? by Michel Foucault, as well as literary theories like authorial intent and reader response theory, will be mentioned and discussed. Questions concerning the intentions of the author will arise, and in order to find clearer answers, Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland will be used as an example. The nonsense novel as we know it, contains a great deal of the author’s own life experiences, which play a crucial role in the understanding of the novel. This work will be divided into two parts; one dedicated to the introduction of art and literature as a whole, and the understanding of the theories concerned with the authors and their intentions, while the second part deals with Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland’s analysis and how Lewis Carroll successfully managed to allegorize his life subtly into his story.