Ah, now the intention is the thing. Poets often intend to expose themselves,
and in doing so become selective. Novelists, of the mainstream, and it is a
broad stream these days, pretend to creation of 'new' characters and
situations, and it is their intention which is thoroughly revealing of
themselves. The text is often also revealing, but behind the text, what is
not said and/or said in an authorial characteristic voice, can expose the
author to the perceptive reader. Bakhtin said, 'The word in language is half
someone else's.' from "Discourse in the Novel", and that other is the
reader.
Off now for breakfast ...
Andrew
On 22/02/07, Alison Croggon <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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> Hi Candice... yes, the narrative is a way of hiding, and also the
> invention of characters. Though the mask is fascinatingly also a mode
> of revealing.
>
> On 2/22/07, Roger Day <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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> > I always thought fiction was a Master Of The Universe deal where you
> > get to control everything ... BAWAHAHAHA!!!
> >
> That's MY theory. Really I want to be God. Only in practice it seems
> that fiction ends up having its own ideas and doing things you don't
> expect at all. So much for authorial intention...
>
> All best
>
> A
>
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