Literary intention, literary interpretation, and readers

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Literary intention, literary interpretation, and readers

John Maynard

Broadview Press, c2009

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Includes bibliographical references (p. 395-422) and index

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内容説明

This accessible, personal, and provocative study returns to the major subject in literary discussion before and during the relatively recent flourishing of literary theory, that of literary intention. Does the author's personal intention or historical site determine a correct interpretation of a literary work? Probing the entire range of issues connected with this many-faceted and knotty concept, this book engages with interpretation on both theoretical and practical levels. It argues that the hard questions about interpretation connected to issues of intention cannot be sidestepped or ignored. It does not argue for conservative concepts of literature itself, nor against the major historical engagements of critics in our time. But in addressing those who continue to read or teach literature, it does insist on a level of sophistication in issues of literary interpretation that cannot be assured by historical research and knowledge of the social and cultural connections to literary works. The overall aim of the work is to recall readers to the great complexity, pleasure, and interest of literary interpretation.

目次

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS SECTION ONE: INTRODUCTION SECTION TWO: LITERARY INTENTION/ALITY Once More with Feeling Individual Psychological Uncertainties Ideological and Discursive Uncertainties Deliberate Uncertainties Performative Multi-Intentions Limits on the Author's Control Cultural Determinism as Disguised Intentionality Intention in the Text Intended Initial Reception as a Guide to Intention Speech Act Thinking as a Way of Establishing Intentions Words Getting in the Way Syntax, Grammar, Logic Getting in the Way Tropes and Figures Getting in the Way Voice Gets in the Way Too Thematic Foregrounds Abounding Foregrounding Forms Abounding: Genres and Structures Interpretation: Some More Pragmatic Arguments You Can't Properly Get There from Here: Babes in the Woodsof Historicity Brief Conclusion to a Long Discourse SECTION THREE: REREADING READER THEORIES: INTERVENTIONS AND INTRUSIONS Introduction What Was to Fear in the Wolf-gang in Sheep's Clothing De Man's Narrative of Reading: No Exit-for Others Reading in Textual Power Reread: The Big One that Got Away Theory Postscript: Communities and Schools of Fish SECTION FOUR: CONCLUSION AND WORK IN PROGRESS: READER THEORY MEETS REAL READERS Appendix 1: More on Speech Act Theory and Intention Appendix 2: Stanley Fish's Intentions Works Cited Index

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