Elaine Kleiner <EJELK@ROOT.INDSTATE.EDU> wrote:
>Something terrible happened to the field of literary studies in the
>early '80s. It was called the "death of the author." Check out the
>work of Jane Tompkins and you'll see what happened.
What's remarkable about the critic business going gaga over a theory which
explains that the critic is at the top, mere readers in the middle, and
authors at the bottom if at all?
Neil Rest
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