Your approach makes perfect sense to me. And it makes more sense than pure New Crit especially, I think. How can we truly divorce anything "in the text" from context? To recognize any meaning in a text at all, we have to either base it on our own concepts, the concepts of the author's time (or our concepts thereof), or both. Otherwise all we can really agree on is that there are some letters.
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Date: 2010-05-14 04:18 pm (UTC)