Re: Salinger's Problem with Westerners?

Nah, I don't think authorial intent is ever going to come back -- it's been
out since the 40s, really, and we haven't heard much more than a whisper
(except, perhaps, from guys like Emanuel Hirsch).

But you didn't address the reasons I gave for problems with authorial
intent at all -- I didn't use specialized language either. Is the real
problem that people with literary criticism its jargon, or simply an
unwillingness to really think about these issues.

Jim

Scottie Bowman wrote:

> '... just by asking about "the writer's intent" ... you're working
> within a specific set of critical assumptions that just aren't held
> anymore ...'
>
> Hard luck, Dan. Try & get with it, man.
>
> On the other hand, fashions in this area run to a timetable as
> regular as any in haute couture, medicine or history. If you've
> missed one you can catch it coming round the same route in
> another twenty years or so. Just be patient.
>
> Scottie B.
>
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