Intentionality and the New Traditionalism argues that both the
text and the author of a literary work are important to a cogent
and full reading of that work. The author creates the text, which
then leads the reader into a reading of it through its various
elements or literary devices that have been consciously employed by
the author. The author's presence is thus continuous in the work
and important to it. Such elements and literary devices create what
can be called an "intentionality" of the text and become limina, or
thresholds, through which the reader can enter the world of the
text. The limina direct the reader toward one means of
understanding the work. Shawcross discusses and demonstrates the
significance of specific types of limina, including genre,
structure, and numerological relationships within the work, the use
of Latin, allusion and historical/biographical context, onomastics,
the performing self, and intertextuality. Some of these, such as
genre, have been dismissed in recent critical stances, and others
have been little considered.
Shawcross first explores genre, looking at poetic genres and
subgenres, the difference between genre and mode, the generic
question of tragedy/comedy, the concept of lyric, and the
significance of sequence. He then illustrates the importance of
other limina to a variety of authors and periods. He also offers
new readings of particular works and suggests possible revised
readings of other works of similar nature. Shawcross draws
primarily on poetry and works of the seventeenth and twentieth
centuries, but drama and the novel as well as the nineteenth
century are also included.
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