Re: authorial intent

From: Kim Johnson <haikux2@yahoo.com>
Date: Fri Oct 25 2002 - 12:46:04 EDT

--- Jim Rovira <jrovira@drew.edu> wrote:
> 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.

i guess in my mind there's a difference between
literary criticism and literary theory. some one like
updike, say, certainly isn't considered a literary
theorist. his innumberable book reviews hardly count
as literary theory. by miller, i assume you mean henry
not arthur. i don't recall miller being much a
theorist about writing, apart from an equation of the
phallus and the pen. though new directions did do a
volume of miller on writing, grant you. woolf
certainly had a vision of the novel, and did do a lot
of great work outside of her 'sunday essays' collected
in the common readers. pound, okay, had many theories
about writing--his fetish for the image, the vortex,
the ideogrammatic method-- but much of his noncreative
work is simply: read this you idiot. or: let me
enlighten you about economics, etc.

i guess i mean i don't see creative writers itching to
read the next issue of pmla. that there's a difference
between practicing the art and analyzing it (almost to
death). there are exceptions, yes.

kim

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