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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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 |
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aims argument author's meaning belong canons changes Chap coherence commentary consciousness constitutive construction construed context conventions convey course criteria criterion defined determinacy determinate distinction divinatory Edmund Husserl Emil Staiger Emilio Betti emphases evidence example experience explicit extrinsic fact function Gadamer Gadamer's genre concepts guess hermeneutic theory heuristic historical historicism horizon Husserl's hypothesis implications instances intention intentional object inter interpreter's intrinsic criticism intrinsic genre J. M. Keynes judge kind knowledge linguistic literary texts literature logic narrow norms of language notion object Paradise Lost particular perceive poem poetry possible precisely pretation preter principle probability judgments problem Pythagorean theorem radical historicity reader reading relevant represent Schleiermacher sense sentence sharable significance simply speaker stance subject matter subsumed T. S. Eliot term text's meaning textual meaning thing tion traits tree true type idea type of meaning understanding utterance valid interpretation verbal meaning whole meaning word sequence