Specifically, CE has subscribed to the rationale of Walter Greg, as practiced in the editing of nineteenth-century American texts by Fredson Bowers, G. Thomas Tanselle, and others, by invoking the crucial importance of the "author's final intentions"—identifying and preserving what the editors believe the author finally intended for every aspect of the form and substance of the work at hand.
But "O Lost" does not represent Wolfe's final intentions.
"O Lost," after all, represents Wolfe's first and perhaps purest literary intentions toward the novel that became "Look Homeward, Angel". But "O Lost" does not represent Wolfe's final intentions.
The Revisers, as they're sometimes called, argue that the drafts that have been mixed together need to be pulled apart, so that we can recover Shakespeare's "final intentions".
But it is unclear whether Mr. Bush has pressed Mr. Sharon to discuss in detail what the borders of a Palestinian state would look like, or what his final intentions are for the barrier.
The Tenth is consequently the ultimate musical act of agonised self-revelation - though its psychoanalytic intimacy can only be approached through one or more of its completions, none of which may be an accurate reflection of Mahler's final intentions.
The book was published posthumously in Spanish in 2004 to tremendous acclaim, after what appears to have been a bit of dithering over Bolaño's final intentions — a small result of which is that its English translation (by Natasha Wimmer, the indefatigable translator of "The Savage Detectives") has been bracketed by two faintly defensive statements justifying the book's present form.
This may be the most modern take on the play we've seen yet: Ben Moor's absurd, heartbreaking Medvedenko moans about the cost of his mobile phone contract, and Joseph Drake's damaged Konstantin makes his final intentions clear by taking it out on his own mobile phone.
In the above conditions, 'productive intention' should be regarded as referring to the content of the author's final intentions concerning the artifact.
The issues are: How and where did collaborators (licensed and otherwise) succeed or fail in realizing Cooper's final intentions for his works?
