This "domination by the author" has been, at least until now, the point of writing and reading. The author masters the resources of language to create a vision that will engage and in some way overpower the reader; the reader goes to the work to be subjected to the creative will of another.


The Gutenberg Elegies: The Fate of Reading in an Electronic Age (1994)


This domination by the author has been, at least until now, the point of writing and reading. The author masters the resources of language to create...

This domination by the author has been, at least until now, the point of writing and reading. The author masters the resources of language to create...

This domination by the author has been, at least until now, the point of writing and reading. The author masters the resources of language to create...

This domination by the author has been, at least until now, the point of writing and reading. The author masters the resources of language to create...