MDDM Ch. 72 Dixon and the slave driver

[Terrance]

Dave Monroe wrote:
> 
> Oh, and, arbeiter, maybe, arbiter, never.  I'm simply
> willing to let readings remain in superposition, is
> all.  And agreed on Doug as curiously postmodern
> antipostmodernist vs. Robert as generally New Critical
> poststructuralist.  Just curious as to where that
> leaves me, is all ...

I think, in the end, although skeptical of lit-crit, preferring the lit
to the crit, you have a lot of Russian in you and some French. Don't
want start hanging signs on people but you are attracted to the
literariness of literary language and how it functions in fictions,
poems, plays...is subversive of ordinary speach...has multiple
meanings...and how texts share or intertextualize rhetorical
devices...often with a plurality of voices. You are something of a
pluralist, inviting all and any disciplined approach to sit at the
table, this is owed primarily, I suspect (different from why I am a
Pluralist) to your very strong commitment to the reader and the text. I
think you have said something like, even if TRP were to walk in here and
tell us that in his book M&D, Dixon never whipped the Driver, his would
be only one more interpretation.