Title: Surviving deconstruction:Authorial Intention Revisited
Description: 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
Subjects: Criticism, Deconstruction
People: Ananda Kentish Coomaraswamy (1877-1947), Denis Dutton, Knapp & Michaels, Noel Carroll, Stanley Cavell (1926-2018), Wimsatt & Beardsley
Time periods: Twentieth Century