BEER Ch. 6, 57-61: Reg reports in

[Fiona Shnapple]

Barth

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S/Z

Foucault

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/What_Is_an_Author%3F

Foucault on Beckett
http://www.cyberartsweb.org/cpace/theory/authorship/jervais/whatmatters.htm

Wood, How Fiction Works

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Wood_(critic)

Booth, The Rhetoic of Fiction
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wayne_C._Booth

Brian McHale
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian_McHale

Also, see, mentioned by Mark here:
Frye
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anatomy_of_Criticism





On Wed, Oct 30, 2013 at 6:47 AM, Fiona Shnapple <fionashnapple at gmail.com> wrote:
> In the end, Wood says, "the novel teaches us how to read its narrator"
> (5). And, that style draws us toward the writer(6). And, that with
> free indirect speech the writer inflects reported thought, bends it
> around characters (9).  Here Wood is saying, in condensed and simpler
> language what Booth said in TRF. Booth says, the author may choose a
> disguise but can not choose to disappear. Wood says that so-called
> omniscience is almost impossible. He quotes Barth's S/Z on "cultural
> code", and, again, this is nothing more than a simplified Booth--what
> Booth calls the authorial norms. So, commonly accepted or generally
> excepted cultural values. Of course, much of our attempt to read
> Pynchon is about how his style draws us toward him as he wraps
> inflects thoughts and ideas about his characters. We often find
> ourselves fixated on a single word, like "legend" because the narrator
> seems to invite, no,  instruct us to read with our dictionaries, with
> our Google Machines, to make plots into conspiracy. And, although we
> know that close reading is a very conservative or traditional
> approach, that it sets us up to read with traditional expectations,
> and that the narrator only seems to instructs us in this method, we
> keep at it, a modern reader in the zones of postmoderism, treating
> characters like characters flat or round or whatever, settings of time
> and space  Newtonian, reading as if we are still at the movies and TV
> and rich media have not yet been invented, saturated our lives or the
> lives of the characters we try to unravel in order to discover that
> one word that seems out of place and must belong, by some cause and
> effect, to the author.
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