[Milton-L] Fish and Milton

[James Rovira]

It's been too long since I've read SbS, Michael, but what you say
below fits what I recall thinking at the time.  Fish seemed to assume
a specific kind of reader -- a reader with some knowledge and
sophistication.  When we consider that Milton would be included as one
of these types of readers, we have an implicitly stated intentionalist
argument.  But here intention would mean not what the author was
thinking at the moment of composition, but what the author thinks as
the best reader of his/her own work in a community of readers who
shares approximately the same knowledge and interpretive principles.

Jim R

On Fri, May 8, 2009 at 7:33 PM, Michael Gillum <mgillum at unca.edu> wrote:

<<I think Fish was trying to get at
>> intention by discussing features of the text and how they shape the
>> responses of what he posits as a typical reader.