Since the appearance of New Criticism, authorial intention as a guideline for reading and interpreting literary works has been almost totally discredited. With the appearance of poststructuralism, especially Roland Barthes’ famed essay, “The Death of the Author,” authorial intention has become a suspect topic in literary criticism. Consequently, the role of the author has almost been completely ignored by present-day literary scholars. This proposal argues, however, that in their advocacy for the death of the author, both New Critics and post-structuralists have shown some blindness and failed to heed the role that the unconscious plays in shaping the author’s intention for creation and the reader’s response in reading and interpretation. To have an adequate understanding of the author’s and reader’s roles, we must delve into the unconscious dimensions of intention in literary creation and interpretation. This seminar proposes to explore how both unconscious and unconscious intentions play a key role in the formation of narratives with multiple dimensions. It calls for some papers with both conceptual inquiries into and textual analysis of narrative works with the aim to reconsider the role of the author for literary studies. It hopes to offer a new understanding of the interplay between conscious and unconscious intentions and explore how the author’s intention overdetermines the dynamic interaction between overt plot and covert progression in narration, and the reader’s conscious and unconscious responses in the process of reading. Its main objective is to inquire into the inner logic for the appearance of dual, triple, and multiple plot structure of a narrative.