Date: Fri, 26 Sep 1997 17:53:58 +0100 From: "Larbaud Jr." <larbaud-AT-mandic.com.br> Subject: Re: PLC: Intentional Fallacy George Trail wrote: > > >The fallacy has to do, in literature, with the notion that while an author > >may intend such-and-such an effect in a given work, a reader might perceive > >the work in a way radically different. The fallacy is assuming that what you > >perceive is what the author intended. > > > >John Palcewski > > I must intrude here that the above is incorrect. I quote directly from W & > B's essay: ". . .the design or intention of the author is neither available > nor desirable as a stndard for judging the success of a work of literary > art." The fallacy is to judge a work by its fulfillment of that > (unavailable) intention. The distinction between this and what John asserts > is crucial. > > g > (aka g trail, engl. u. of houston) If the intention of an author is always unavailable, then it seems to me that you just can't state that 'the above is incorrect'. This can be a metaphor or a lyrical view on the issue, things that can't be 'incorrect'. Without the assumption of any intention, communication seems to be impossible. Larbaud Jr. -- "Eine Zeit missversteht die andere; und eine kleine Zeit missversteht alle andern in ihrer eigenen hässlichen Weise." http://www.geocities.com/Paris/LeftBank/2238/
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