Re: RARA-AVIS: Lassie's social assumptions and other stuff

From: Michael Robison ( miker_zspider@yahoo.com)
Date: 05 Sep 2006


Allan Guthrie wrote:

To make the claim that they are also those of the author may or may not be true but I don't see how a reader can tell simply from the text.

*************** Personally, I prefer to talk about what a book says, and pretty much avoid discussing what the author is trying to say. The first concerns my interpretation of the book, something I can reliably talk about. The second is making guesses about the authors thinking. I prefer the first.

This is significant. If I see homosexual themes in Chandler's work, then I see homosexual themes in Chandler's work. The other way, I'm suggesting that Chandler is homosexual. There is a world of difference.

miker

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