maintained" (552). Strychacz's description of the "ground [that] must be traversed [by literary scholars] in order to arrive at that point of difference" (Strychacz 105) refers to the attention that postmodern critics pay to textual content, not so much to reach aesthetic insight or meaning as to arrive at what seems important to them about the text.
From one point of view, then, the critic, not the text, which is really just instrumental object, is at the center of the critical enterprise. What comes across as most important about that enterprise is that the critic be seen as the agent of insight; whether the insight itself can be substantiated with specific reference to text or to the facts of the author's life is evide
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