medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
"My own view is that a text like the PrT can do a number
of things quite apart from an author's 'intent' (a concept I've never
understood), and so irony is one of many possibilities."
I'd say you're in the mainstream and do understand the concept. The "intentional fallacy" is a no-no in most literary critical studies. One examines a text as an autonomous artifact; the author has no more standing in determining the meaning of a work than any other reader. What's there is there regardless of what, if anything, the author intended. Turner was furious with Ruskin for finding something in one of T's paintings that T had not "put" there. The intentional fallacy, I'd say, applies to painting and sculpture but art historians, especially of the medieval variety, resist this - with some notable exceptions. But I digress...
MG
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