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that one 'not try to make assuptions about the author's life
based upon that art.' In the first place, I tend to walk out
the door when someone 'dictates' anything to me. In the second
place, what kind of scholarship are you talking about? Are
you saying art scholars don't study VanGogh's portraits to
chart the course of his growing madness? Are you saying
those same art critics don't follow Picasso through his
numerous periods and piece together an emotional picture of
his life, political, personal, sexual? Are you saying Sam
Clemens scholars don't comb through Huck Finn and Puddin'Head
Wilson for clues and insights augmenting what they know
already about the man? This has, in fact, happened recently,
with Clemens, where he has be critically re-examined in order
to asertain his true feelings about racial issues. This has been
done using text. Recently English poet laureate Robert Hughes
did a critical examination of Venus and Adonis in which he
tried to asertain the sexual relationship between the author
and Henry Wriothsley, to whom the poem is dedicated. This,
from a poet, using text to examine the man. James Joyce
and Ulysses, I mean there are reams about Joyce and his novel,
critical works drawing from the text to show more insight
into the man. So what exactly are you talking about, and
just who are these scholars you keep mentioning?
Posted by Bill Routhier on April 15, 1997 at 07:07:44
In Reply to "Sorry, but you are wrong (as usual)." posted by Bruce Spielbauer on April 15, 1997 at 04:58:29
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