Surviving deconstruction:Authorial Intention Revisited

Restoration of human agency, volition, to activity-intellectual and aesthetic—has the most urgent claim upon our energies today when theory has licensed practice to engage in whimsy under the guise of breaking new ground. To language—referentiality; to act—intention; and to literary work—•author; this must be the new programme. The work urges the restoration of intention as a desirable critical tool in a Reconstructivist programme that I see as the redemptive mode available to human arts. I believe that this effort is worthwhile, though the programme itself may not attract much support. That may be as it should be. --**G.K.Subbarayudu** (Author) … this vigorously argued book on literary intention … is neither awed by the sheer power of Deconstruction and Post-structuraiism nor is it compelled to pay obeisance to orthodoxy in literary studies. — **C.T. INDRA**, Professorof English, University of Madras, India