A Modest Proposal (was RE: Guthrie to Maggie and Max)

[Max Sawicky]

> > In keeping with my lapsed literary training, I wasn't
> > considering WG at all, but only the text.  What the
> > text might mean, irrespective of whatever WG meant.
> > So WG is not in it.
> 
> Ah, the death of the author, eh?  So you can pomo 
> after all, Max!

Before there was pomo, there was "New Criticism,"
which is what they fed me at Rutgers.  There were
no authors.  We did not go so far as to call things
we read "texts" -- just poems etc. whose only life
was in the words themselves.

mbs