Shifting critical verdicts on an author require establishing they judge the same work

Evidence

But what did Bernstein’s view signify other than that he preferred novels with classical narrative forms and a social conscience to everything else, and that Hamsun was too modern for his taste? And what did it signify when later, in the Neue Zeit, empty moods' and mere nervous stimulation’ stopped being criticized, and `thrilling images of life and of the soul’ were admired instead, if it had not first been established whether these later views referred to the same sort of book as the earlier ones? What was there to show that these were varying reactions to the same postliberal ideology in Hamsun, rather than being perceptions of different levels of significance within one and the same work of art? — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 240

Categorization

• QUESTION: How would one actually design a reception study that compares like with like across a journal’s changing line?
• XREF: connects to: Conflicting critical verdicts on one author are variations on a single structural model — Fredric Jameson, Marxism and Form, 748; Identical text can differ in originality depending on authorial context. — , The Braided Reading EPUB: 5-Year…, 2029; Criticizing purported inconsistencies in the Qur’an depends on assumptions about authorship — Norman Daniel, Islam and the West, 2225
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Conflicting critical verdicts on one author are variations on a single structural model — Fredric Jameson, Marxism and Form, 748; Identical text can differ in originality depending on authorial context. — , The Braided Reading EPUB: 5-Year…, 2029; Criticizing purported inconsistencies in the Qur’an depends on assumptions about authorship — Norman Daniel, Islam and the West, 2225