Reading Racism: The Assumption of Authorial Intentions in Stephen Crane's 'The Monster'

This paper derives from an M.A. dissertation on Stephen Crane ("Reading 'The Monster'," Brown University, 1989). It examines the critical reception of Stephen Crane's story 'The Monster,' with a special focus on the issue of racial representation and on the way authorial intentions bearing on this issue are constructed by critics. The critical approach expands narratological analysis in the direction of the sociology of literature, in this case through reception aesthetics. Focusing on racial representations and attitudes, the paper upholds the relevance of authorial intention as a critical concept, understanding criticism as a specific discursive discipline or "language game," on the basis of the continual use critics make of this concept in order to make sense of the works they read. At the same time, the limits of such intentions are shown to be ideologically determined in the critical act. Interpretation emerges, therefore, as an interactive practice which is often blind to the discursive conventions that enable it.

 Reading Racism: The Assumption of Authorial Intentions 

in Stephen Crane's 'The Monster'

http://dx.doi.org/10.17613/M6FW04

Author(s):

José Angel García Landa (see profile)

Date:

2018

Group(s):

American Literature, Narrative theory and Narratology

Subject(s):

Race/ethnicity, American literature, Narratology

Item Type:

Article

Tag(s):

interpretation, Stephen Crane, American fiction, Racism

Permanent URL:

http://dx.doi.org/10.17613/M6FW04

Abstract:

Notes:

Written 1989.

_____. "Reading Racism: The Assumption of Authorial Intentions in Stephen Crane's 'The Monster'." Miscelánea 10 (Zaragoza, 1989): 63-80.*

         http://www.miscelaneajournal.net/index.php/misc/article/view/467

         http://www.miscelaneajournal.net/index.php/misc/article/view/467/221

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_____. "Reading Racism: The Assumption of Authorial Intentions in Stephen Crane's 'The Monster'." Online at Net Sight de José Angel García Landa (2004):

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_____. "Reading Racism: The Assumption of Authorial Intentions in Stephen Crane's 'The Monster'." iPaper at Academia 9 Jan. 2011.*

         https://www.academia.edu/406009/

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_____. "Reading Racism: The Assumption of Authorial Intentions in Stephen Crane's 'The Monster'." Online PDF at Social Science Research Network 9 Jan. 2011.*

         http://ssrn.com/abstract=1737231

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         Cognition & the Arts eJournal 9 Jan. 2011.*

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         http://www.ssrn.com/link/English-Ethnic-Studies.html

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 _____. "Reading Racism: The Assumption of Authorial Intentions in Stephen Crane's 'The Monster'." ResearchGate 3 May 2013.*

         https://www.researchgate.net/publication/228174299

         2013

_____. "Reading Racism: The Assumption of Authorial Intentions in Stephen Crane's 'The Monster'." Humanities Commons 24 March 2018.*

         https://hcommons.org/deposits/item/hc:18679/

         http://dx.doi.org/10.17613/M6FW04

         2018

_____. "Reading Racism: The Assumption of Authorial Intentions in Stephen Crane's The Monster." Brown University / U de Zaragoza, 1989. Online at Core.*

         https://core.ac.uk/download/154925891.pdf

         2023

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