GRGR(30): You will want cause and effect.

[jbor]

> but
> he applies metaphors and a few of the most complex concepts
> from the the novel, for example,  the Paranoia(s) and
> Conditioning  to
> the reader.

Yes, as in the passage you cited where narrative agency, in a direct address
to the reader, describes "anti-paranoia ... as a condition not many of us
can bear for long."

>  He admits that his use of the paranoid concepts,
> which he uses as metaphor for the reader's "text
> processing"  are, at least in part, unadvised and
> extravagant.
>
>  "My use of the metaphors of paranoia may seem extravagant
> but it is not wholly unadvised."  De-Conditioning

The quote you provide appears to contradict your negative assertion.

> We should bare in mind that McHale's thesis has little to do
> with GR

What?

> and that in his Introduction he states, "No doubt
> there 'is' no such 'thing' as postmodernism." He goes on to
> say that his previous book was a language game and the
> present one a narrative. Oh rocks tell us in plain word!

Actually, he explains all of this pretty well.

> McHale's thesis in the GR chapters, as far as I can tell,
> is, GR and postmodern "Text Processing."
> What the hell is "text processing" anyway? McHale opens a
> can of worms with this one because he will need to deal
> with the reading process, oh boy, oh girl, oh my, and as he
> says, with
> "Unreliability and Reliability", oh no!

I'm sorry Terrance, I can't make sense of this, and I don't see how it
relates to McHale, *GR*, or this discussion.

> his approach discounts or undermines or scoffs at
> other critical
> approaches.

No it doesn't; certainly not in the way you scoff at his.

> Second, his "text processing" approach is not
> supported by any solid scholarship on what happens during
> the
> reading process.

I believe his credentials are intact.



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>From: Terrance <Lycidas at worldnet.att.net>
>Subject: Re: GRGR(30): You will want cause and effect.
>Date: Thu, Jul 6, 2000, 11:06 AM
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