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When "an English" fails you. #1 (permalink) Wed Oct 15, 2008 11:11 am   When "an English" fails you.		  
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
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When "an English" fails you. #2 (permalink) Sat Oct 18, 2008 9:29 am   When "an English" fails you.		  
See Barthes' Death of the Author.

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When "an English" fails you. #3 (permalink) Mon Oct 20, 2008 23:20 pm   When "an English" fails you.		  
MrPedantic wrote:
See Barthes' Death of the Author.

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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.

http://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"'

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reader_Response
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When "an English" fails you. #4 (permalink) Tue Oct 21, 2008 8:50 am   When "an English" fails you.		  
Here's a more centred comment:
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Having regard to the heading of this thread, I take the professor's comments to be made in a context where he is discussing "Englishes" and not literary criticism.

http://www.englishforums.com/English/WhenAnEnglishFailsYou/2/gpgrq/Post.htm
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When "an English" fails you. #5 (permalink) Tue Oct 21, 2008 9:12 am   When "an English" fails you.		  
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.
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