A word on critics

Abstract

A word might be in order concerning the status of my own critical argument and its position within the larger critical context. My reading of The Sacred Fount, rather than claiming to be ‘final’, is ‘primary’, that is, textual. It takes up the narrator’s hypothesis about sacred founts and follows it through to the end, and with the consistency that makes it necessary to include the narrator in our analysis, as well as our own act upon the text. I call it ‘primary’ for not being exhaustive, but also for the fact that it enters the text on its own level.