At 3:26 PM +0800 3/9/97, 25bb1972@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
>I find the ideas of literary labelling and the unease we
>have about 'anonymous' works in general interesting. I used the example of
>'Primary Colours' once to make a point about the author-presence
>overtaking the
>'value' of the text itself. Does anyone (maybe our American friends would
>know
>more?) have comments about this or a similar controversy using the
>Foucaldian (
>Foucaultian?!) ideas of authorship.
The question of the author was of interest for at least two reasons I can
think of - first, as a hint of splits in the Clinton inner circle, and
second, as some guide to how "true" the gossipy bits were.
Doug
>I find the ideas of literary labelling and the unease we
>have about 'anonymous' works in general interesting. I used the example of
>'Primary Colours' once to make a point about the author-presence
>overtaking the
>'value' of the text itself. Does anyone (maybe our American friends would
>know
>more?) have comments about this or a similar controversy using the
>Foucaldian (
>Foucaultian?!) ideas of authorship.
The question of the author was of interest for at least two reasons I can
think of - first, as a hint of splits in the Clinton inner circle, and
second, as some guide to how "true" the gossipy bits were.
Doug