GRGR (15): Good & Evil (was Enzian...)
Terrance F. Flaherty
Lycidas at worldnet.att.net
Sat Dec 11 09:25:15 CST 1999
Lorentzen / Nicklaus wrote:
>
> Terrance schrieb:
>
> > Also, I think the
> > reader must distance himself from Slothrop to make any sense
> > of the novel.
>
> Please explicate this very strong (- "any"!) thesis! KFL
Oh boy, did it again, take out "ANY."
The reader must distance himself from Slothrop to make sense
of the novel.
This is the direct opposite of what many postmodern theories
argue about GR. Many postmodern readings equate Slothrop
with the reader, I think this is helpful to a point, but
flawed and has more to do with theories of reading (note, I
contend that to date no one has discovered, or articulated a
sound theory of the reading process) than GR and postmodern
fiction in general.
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