[Borges]

Sorry I just don't buy the God/Author comparisons. :-)

Besides no one is questioning the author's intentions. I'm sure they knows what they meant and their intentions cannot be questioned. And a biographer or psychologist can deal with that. It reduces literature to a veiled form of autobiography. A literary scholar has to go by what's on the page.

[bornacatholic]

what's bred in the bones :)

[bornacatholic]

So, according to you, Swift's "A Modest Proposal" can be understood by the critic to be a serious proposal.