Validity in Interpretation"Here is a book that brings logic to the most unruly of disciplines, literary interpretation. . . . This study is a necessary took for anyone who wants to talk sense about literature."--Virginia Quarterly Review By demonstrating the uniformity and universality of the principles of valid interpretation of verbal texts of any sort, this closely reasoned examination provides a theoretical foundation for a discipline that is fundamental to virtually all humanistic studies. It defines the grounds on which textual interpretation can claim to establish objective knowledge, defends that claim against such skeptical attitudes as historicism and psychologism, and shows that many confusions can be avoided if the distinctions between meaning and significance, interpretation and criticism are correctly understood. |
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... Changes- Even for the Author " 6 C. " It Does Not Matter What an Author Means— Only What His Text Says " 10 D. " The Author's Meaning Is Inaccessible " E. " The Author Often Does Not Know What He Means " Chapter 2 MEANING AND ...
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Contents
IN DEFENSE OF THE AUTHOR | 1 |
It Does Not Matter What an Author Means | 10 |
MEANING AND IMPLICATION | 24 |
Symptomatic Meanings | 51 |
THE CONCEPT OF GENRE | 68 |
UNDERSTANDING INTERPRETATION | 127 |
B Understanding Interpretation and History | 133 |