1984 Evoking 9/11

[Terrance]

Malignd wrote:
> 
> <<It's clear, though, that Pynchon's phraseology has
> evoked thoughts of 9/11.>>
> 
> I agree.  A very different thing "Pynchon's
> phraseology."

AND 

"Although, again, the complaint hasn't been so
much with subjectivism, rather with insisting the
subjective is its opposite." 

One can  focus all the attention on the text (the so-called  "text
itself"  as a self-contained pattern of words, an autonomous structure
of literary devices) and ignore the reader. 


One can argue an  extreme subjectivism  (sometimes called Freudianism) . 

On one side, the critic analyses the work apart from  "extrinsic"
concerns, apart from both the author and reader. Anything that smacks of
subjectivity is a brash betrayal of the integrity of the work itself. 

On the other side, meaning is produced through evocation by a reader
reading a text. 

Most arguments here have fallen someplace between these two extremes. 

Except mine, of course, since I contradict myself and argue both
extremes at the same time. 

Happy Weekend All, 

T