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[alice wellintown]

And, it is here that so much that Wood has to say is founded, on his
notion of the broken estate. He can abide a Melville, even praise him
for his mad use of metaphor, though he couches such praise in the
crumbling certitudes stapled to a dying animal that knows naught but
doubt, but he cannot put up with a Pynchon because literary belief
must have values, in Booth's sense, a world of values the reader may
stand on.

On Sun, Oct 14, 2012 at 9:27 AM, alice wellintown
<alicewellintown at gmail.com> wrote:
> “the reader’s need to know where, in the world of values, he stands, that
> is, to know where the author wants him to stand” (Booth. 73).
>
> excerpted from a brief deiscussion from Booth, on the older,
> "discredited" meaning or application of the term.
>
>
> On Sat, Oct 13, 2012 at 7:25 PM, Markekohut <markekohut at yahoo.com> wrote:
>> Seems Paul's use of theme is the current one, according to Wikipedia ( this article could surely be expanded) and my definition is an older one.
>>
>> Mark, older than hip Paul....
>>
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>>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theme_(narrative)
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