Re: authorial intent

Quite a few notable authors in the past (and present) also did/do a good
bit of literary criticism -- Updike, Miller, Eliot, Woolf, Ezra Pound,
Wyndham Lewis, C.S. Lewis, Tolkein...the list could go on and on. Many
poets today are college and university instructors, because being a poet
(even a good one) is a very good way to starve to death. There are authors
that, quite frankly, can tell a good story but don't have the ability to
really understand literary criticism, and the critics who never attempt to
write creatively, well, aren't among my favorites...

I won't even get into Shakespearean criticism, where you're just as likely
to read something written by an actor or director as you are by a literary
critic (this is a pretty cool thing).

C.S. Lewis wrote some interesting things about literary criticism from a
creative writer's standpoint, and he was very much in both camps.

Jim

Kim Johnson wrote:

> i would love to see one issue of one of those
> innumerable literary journals devoted to authors'
> responses to questions like: do you read literary
> theory? if so, does literary theory affect how and
> what you write? what is the state of your intent
> today?
>
>
> and so on.
>
> kim
>
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