Discussion Tip Of The Day

Jasper's Selfhood lycidas2 at earthlink.net
Sun Oct 15 17:40:03 CDT 2000



s~Z wrote:
> 
> "The negligence of, for example, narrative mode or POV in favour of a 1 to 1
> "The author says" or "The author tells us" approach has done a lot of harm
> to list discussion in the past, IMHO."

And, another thing, it seems to me that this is impossible
to avoid. IMHO this is not the problem. Sorry s-Z I usually
agree with you on these matters, but here I must say, this
idea of authorial intent or the didactic element of TRP's
fiction is a  critical issue not a list issue. The harm done
to the discussion here has little, IMHO, to do with this
critical point of contention.



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