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

[Terrance]

jbor wrote:
> 
> > 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.

"Text Processing" pg.63 "Unreliability reliability" pg.64 
> 
> > 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.

I'm not questioning his credentials. I'm questioning his
approach and my scoffs are quite mild compared with McHale's
of other misreaders and conditioned readers. 

GR and VL are only two texts in the study, and are the focus
of McHale's work.