[Milton-L] responses and intentionalism

[Horace Jeffery Hodges]

Jim mused:
 

"Once you assume certain characteristics of a reading community as the basis of your reading of a text, you privilege that reading community. SbS and other Fish books assume readers of a certain education and sophistication. Do you really think he'd bother imagining a reading community made of up adolescent boys who had no knowledge of the Biblical and mythological referents in PL -- who just read it as an action story? The only way out is to do something like the recent Continuum anthologies do -- 'The Reception of Jane Austen in Europe.' Etc."
 
Jim, you mean like Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, by Jane Austen and Seth Grahame-Smith?
 

http://www.amazon.com/Pride-Prejudice-Zombies-Classic-Ultraviolent/dp/1594743347/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1241898587&sr=1-1
 
It's the Austen classic rewritten as a zombie horror story. Adam Cohen of The New York Times has a review:
 

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/14/opinion/14tue4.html
 
The rewrite almost sounds plausible -- Austen's novels always were about good and evil.
 
This reader is almost persuaded to read it...
 
Jeffery Hodges
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