tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2883979841111173610.post2529315623698471648..comments2024-02-05T00:16:13.698-05:00Comments on Banjo52: New Criticism, Part 2: The Intentional FallacyBanjo52http://www.blogger.com/profile/04342397136888422440noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2883979841111173610.post-91007408109646649772009-08-18T11:18:33.217-04:002009-08-18T11:18:33.217-04:00GPK,
I've been too long away from As I Lay Dyi...GPK,<br />I've been too long away from As I Lay Dying to say anything meaningful about your frolic with it. It sounds like fun, but a stretch for Disney. Still, why don't you float it? (Is that what you do--float it? What's the expression I mean? Send Disney a flier? Take a powder? No, that's not it . . . ).Banjo52https://www.blogger.com/profile/04342397136888422440noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2883979841111173610.post-37266055486230915622009-08-17T20:01:41.462-04:002009-08-17T20:01:41.462-04:00Interesting on the judge's directive! "Yo...Interesting on the judge's directive! "You can't unring that bell."<br /><br />I've also wondered about another difference between the law and literary theory -- in the law, INTENT is a huge factor in the severity of the crime, yet the New Criticism asks us to ignore intent in literature.<br /><br />Fascinating point on parenting, also. Sounds like a future<br />post . . .Banjo52https://www.blogger.com/profile/04342397136888422440noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2883979841111173610.post-36541171802728502512009-08-17T19:55:32.002-04:002009-08-17T19:55:32.002-04:00Follow up message
Whew, here it is http://alt...Follow up message<br /><br /> Whew, here it is http://altadenahiker.blogspot.com/2009/03/i-know-what-you-did-last-summer_16.html<br /><br /> New Criticism’s position is kind of like the judge telling the jury to disregard a comment. Can you?<br /><br /> Funny, I was going to write a little piece about how a child’s success depends on a parent’s mediocrity. Now I realize what gave me the idea – your quote!Banjo52https://www.blogger.com/profile/04342397136888422440noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2883979841111173610.post-75721074139007219662009-08-17T19:53:12.002-04:002009-08-17T19:53:12.002-04:00This comment has been removed by the author.Banjo52https://www.blogger.com/profile/04342397136888422440noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2883979841111173610.post-38278602687212338752009-08-17T19:47:57.215-04:002009-08-17T19:47:57.215-04:00This comment has been removed by the author.Banjo52https://www.blogger.com/profile/04342397136888422440noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2883979841111173610.post-771462874888161492009-08-17T08:05:36.116-04:002009-08-17T08:05:36.116-04:00AH, Well said, as usual. Your "shaking ha...AH, Well said, as usual. Your "shaking hand" image really captures the issue, I think.<br /><br />I doubt anyone who claims to be completely uninterested in the mind and behavior that guide that hand. But I have to prefer the New Criticism's position. Would they even allow this point: that's a separate, supplemental, or even irrelevant story; we "may" read it if we like, but we don't impose its facts, or "facts" on the other, primary work.<br /><br />If you care to pin down the date of your post on the subject, I'd love to read it.<br /><br />Faulkner's line on Shakespeare's children makes you like Faulkner? You really are dedicated to the work. On the other hand, the line is indisputably true and raises interesting, troubling questions. On the third hand, Faulkner did make some sacrifices for family--at least by the standards of his time and place. Ooops, violation of the New Criticism? Biographical fallacy?Banjo52https://www.blogger.com/profile/04342397136888422440noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2883979841111173610.post-8037682008163537302009-08-12T15:18:32.623-04:002009-08-12T15:18:32.623-04:00Just to follow up with a little demonstration of t...Just to follow up with a little demonstration of text and context: Mr. Faulkner's As I Lay Dying is a wonderful book in the context of a graduate level course on the Modern novel. No arguments there. It should be read with Ulysses and Jean Toomer's Cane by anyone interested in multiple points of view, shifting perspective, experimental storytelling and such (forgive me, that sounded a bit too POST-modern, sorry.)<br /><br />As I Lay Dying, as written, would make a terrible Disney animated feature.<br /><br />However with these changes:<br /><br />Disney’s As I Lay Dying<br /><br />The Bundrens may be poor, but their love for each other and their penchant to break out in song and dance get them through the hard times. As a family, they head off in their wagon to get their ailing Ma the medicine she needs. There is peril along the way as Old Man Peabody chases the family down to force them back into his cotton fields at any cost, but together, with the help of their talking mule and Vardaman’s sassy talking fish, they make it to town on time, and Ma Bundren fully recovers. (Hopefully, T-Bone Burnett is available for the soundtrack.)Gothpunkunclenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2883979841111173610.post-15828176051561174572009-08-12T12:54:05.858-04:002009-08-12T12:54:05.858-04:00Hey, I wrote about this too a ways back.
Author b...Hey, I wrote about this too a ways back.<br /><br />Author bios have ruined certain books for me. And it's all my fault. I read those bios just to hear gossip, even if the gossip was 100 years old.<br /><br />Knowing sleeping, drinking, and drugging habits has made me doubt some brilliant and reliable narrators just because of whose shaking hand put the words on the page.<br /><br />I, however, never liked Faulkner until I read that Shakespeare line.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com