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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