MDDM Ch. 72 philosophy is for everyone

[Terrance]

Not sure, Owen, if what you are talking about is anything postmodern,
but it is philosophical. The turning of literary theory (I tend to think
of it as a mirror) has to do with questions of reality, of being,
knowing, meaning, and language and all sorts of things that philosophers
once wrote about but everyone is in the game now. Except the
philosophers of course. They mostly drive cabs. 



To get philosophical about it, I would start with Plato and the
Classical/neoClassical view, the mirror held up to nature and work my
way to Brian McHale--the mirror held up to the reader. 



see René Wellek. "The Mode of Existence of a Literary Work of Art."
Twentieth-Century
     Literary Theory. Ed. Vassilis Lambropoulos and David Neal Miller.
Albany: State
     University Press of New York, 1987. 71-84.

Originally published in the Southern Review 7 (1942), and reprinted as
chapter 12 of René Wellek and Austin Warren, Theory of Literature (1942;
3rd. ed., New York: Harcourt, 1956). (the philosophers here Ingarden and
Husserl). 

http://mh.cla.umn.edu/ebibjd2.html

see Hamlet and His Problems (the philosopher is, ah, can't remember his
name, anyway you all know ELiot wrote his dissertation on the guy). 

http://www.bartleby.com/200/sw9.html

Hirsch, E.D (the philosopher is Frege) 

Validity in Interpretation. Yale, 1967. Trans. German, 1976 Italian,
1973.

Od course to be more philosophical about it or I should say
"scientific," try Frye, Anatomy of Criticism. (I guess the philosopher
is Aristotle). 

Bateson and Co. & John Wain (the philosopher is 

http://www3.oup.co.uk/escrit/scope/







s~Z wrote:
> 
> A quote for Owen McGrann:
> 
> "What writing is all about is what happens on the page between the reader
> and the page . . . What I want is a collaboration, really, with the reader
> on the page where the reader is also making an effort, is putting something
> of himself into it in the way of understanding, in the way of helping to
> construct the fiction that I am giving him."
> 
> William Gaddis, Albany, April 4, 1990