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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... UNDERSTANDING , INTERPRETATION , AND CRITICISM 89 102 111 127 A. The Babel of Interpretations 127 B. Understanding , Interpretation , and History C. Judgment and Criticism 133 139 D. Intrinsic Criticism E. Critical Freedom and ...
... Understanding E. Prejudice and Pre - Understanding Appendix III AN EXCURSUS ON TYPES A. Self - Identity of Types Index B. Verbal Meanings as Types 209 212 224 235 245 247 251 252 254 258 265 265 269 275 1 . IN DEFENSE OF THE AUTHOR It ...
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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 |