Author, Reader, or Text? (aka Canonicity Slapdown 2005)

[littlemanpoet]

Originally Posted by Mister Underhill

Where's the middle-ground -- the collaboration between author and reader?

Quite right. It's a flawed poll without this option. Care to start another, Fordim?

Edit: I can't begin to understand how anyone can think that "analysis" is the extent of the collaboration between author and reader.

Edit2: Okay, since Fordim has explicated choice #4 to include the collaboration between author and reader, thus including the sense of wonder and enchantment, that's how I'll vote. I just wish the option didn't read quite so dunderheaded compared to the rest of them.