Intention and interpretation : : a short history / / Ralf Grüttemeier.
Intention plays a complex role in human utterances. The interpretation of literary texts is a strong case in point: for about two hundred years there have been conflicting views about whether, and how much, authorial intention should matter when professional readers interpret literature. These debat...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter,, [2022] ©2022 |
| Year of Publication: | 2022 |
| Language: | English |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (vi, 207 pages) |
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction Intention and interpretation from a historical perspective
- Chapter One The shaping of authorial intention in Classical antiquity
- Chapter Two The standard model of authorial intention in the Middle Ages
- Chapter Three Sharpening the edges of the standard model of authorial intention in the Renaissance
- Chapter Four To understand the author better than he understands himself. From the hermeneutics of the Enlightenment to Russian Formalism
- Chapter Five Intentional fallacy and its slipstream - on New Critics, intentionalists and poststructuralists
- Chapter Six Authorial intention in jurisprudence and legal theory
- Conclusion and outlook
- Index
- Open-Access-Transformation in Literary Studies.