4.30-6pm, 26 March 2014, Heythrop College (Room TBC)
Followed by a wine reception
Abstract
In an essay that has become something of a classic in the literature, Noel Carroll expressed the happy thought that “When we read a literary text or contemplate a painting, we enter a relationship with its creator that is roughly analogous to a conversation.” I have not come to bury this thesis but to praise it; as well, however, to add to it some reflections of my own as friendly amendments, concerning authorial intention and what I characterize as the non-meaning aspects of works of art.