Do you agree with this observation?
“So far as the language used furthers the writer’s intended effect, it is good; so far as it fails to further that effect, it is bad, no matter how ‘correct’ it may be.”
Professor Porter G. Perrin
See Barthes’ Death of the Author.
MrP
Can I find your opinion in that essay, MrP?
Do you agree with the underlined comment, MrP?
Barthes asks “how can we detect precisely what the writer intended?” His answer is that we cannot.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_the_author
And do you agree with this comment?
‘it is important for the teacher to avoid imposing any “preconceived notions about the proper way to react to any work”’
Here’s a more centred comment:
Extra info:
Apparently, Perrin was “one of the great figures of composition teaching in America between 1925 and 1960”.
Source: An Introduction to Composition Studies. By Erika Lindemann, Gary Tate.