Re: jd is just an author

WILL HOCHMAN (hochman@uscolo.edu)
Thu, 19 Nov 1998 15:05:22 -0700 (MST)

Michael, may I humbly suggest you try and make your points with support
from "Seymour--An Introduction."  It may be a more familiar language for
us to understand your points, and I do think mr. salinger deals directly
with your concerns in this story...you make it sound like we all have a
"peerage of tin ears"! will

On Thu, 19 Nov 1998, Michael Tipermas wrote:

> How can you say the author is just a reader? That is saying that you are 
> looking for messages that aren't there.  The author creates the 
> character and their actions and their reasons for their actions.  The 
> author knows what the character is feeling because he is the 
> character(especially in jds case).  I have not said you don't critizcize 
> him frequently.  If you read my previous messages you would see that I 
> said that you separate the author from the works.  Then you separarate 
> the enjoyment of the works and the disecting of the works.  Then you 
> separate the author's message from your made up meanings.  Then you 
> separate the author as a person from the author as a semi-god.  Then you 
> demonize the author as a person, but worship the semi-god author.  Can 
> anyone understand what I said?
> 
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