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Re: Yes. Camilla Send a noteboard - 17/03/2010 07:53:38 PM

The Ackroyd book, wasn't it?


It was.

I haven't read Bayard's take on that.


He does a similar thing. Murderer as named in the story is not actual murderer, etc. I thought it was fun, even if it was hard to take seriously.


He loses me when he start talking about independent action from characters and deep animosity on the part of the author, but his theory otherwise is sound.


I had trouble with the whole "author does not know what his characters are really doing" type of thing. Bit odd. But interesting all the same.


Well, it makes sense if you see it in the context of reader reception theory like Iser, ie that there are gaps in every text which the reader has to fill in, and the author cannot control that. But not in the "they are actual people with intentions and plans" kind of way, which I felt is how he portrayed it.
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