Intention and interpretation
"What is the connection, if any, between the author's intentions in (while) writing a work of literature and the truth (acceptability, validity) of interpretive statements about it?" With this question, Gary Iseminger introduces a literary debate that has been waged for the past four decades and is addressed by philosophers and literary theorists in Intention and Interpretation
Aufsatzsammlung
xi, 275 pages ; 24 cm
9780877229711, 9781566393461, 0877229716, 1566393469
25316483
Preface Introduction 1. In Defense of the Author -- E.D. Hirsch, Jr. 2. The Authority of the Text -- Monroe C. Beardsley 3. Robust Relativism -- Joseph Margolis 4. The Impossibility of Intentionless Meaning -- Steven Knapp and Walter Benn Michaels 5. Interpretation, Intention, and Truth -- Richard Schusterman 6. An Intentional Demonstration? -- Gary Isminger 7. Art, Intention, and Conversation -- Noel Carroll 8. Wittgensteinan Intentions -- Colin Lyas 9. Intention and Interpretation: Hirsch and Margolis -- Michael Krausz 10. Interpreting with Pragmatist Intentions -- Richard Shusterman 11. Irony, Metaphor, and the Problem of Intention -- Daniel O. Nathan 12. Allusions and Intentions -- Goran Hermeren 13. Intention and Interpretation: A Last Look -- Jerrold Levinson Bibliography Notes on Contributors Index of Names