Date: Fri, 25 Jul 1997 23:10:06 -0600
From: George Trail <gtrail-AT-UH.EDU>
Subject: Re: PLC: authority



>
>Of late, the personalness and immediacy of the "author" has infiltrated
>the theoretical category of authority.  E.g., The personal author-ity of
>the occupant of the oval office is sufficient to seriously undermine the
>authority of the office of the President.
>
>At the same time, the text has taken on a life of its own separate from
>authorial intent.  That is the product of the author has an authority
>separate from the author himself and that makes the quality of "author"
>more abstract.
>
>So if there is a connection between writing and ruling that goes
>beyond the etymological then what do we make of this?
>
>How am I doing so far?
>
>Somebody help!
>
>deaun.
>
Could you say this again a little slower? I had the idea at a couple of
points that I was following, but each time the next paragraph blasted that
notion.

Confused in Houston,
G
>


George Trail
gtrail-AT-uh.edu
U.of Houston