Re: the road to hell

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Socttie, it sounds like you are trotting out Coleridge's "willing
suspension of disbelief"...a reading idea that has always made a great
deal of sense (I think) of how reader and writer "buddy up" to each other
in the first place.

What happens in lit goes beyond authorial intention, but including
authorial knowledge may enable some readers to makes more sense...
after all, readers approach lit with psychologial or aesthetic or
sociologial approaches...biographical approaches are just a variation on
the theme...

Reception of an author's work is usually a process and intention plays
varying roles in varying readers and texts...let's keep this issue good
and muddy, will

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