Intention and interpretation : a short history /

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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Grüttemeier, Ralf, 1961- (Author)
Corporate Author:	Walter de Gruyter & Co
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Language Notes:	In English.
Published:	Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter, [2022]
Subjects:	Authorship. Intention (Logic) in literature. Intention in literature. Literature > History and criticism > Theory, etc. Translating and interpreting. Authorship Art d'écrire. Intention (Logique) dans la littérature. Littérature > Histoire et critique > Théorie, etc. Intention dans la littérature. authorship. LITERARY CRITICISM > European > General. Intention in literature Intention (Logic) in literature Literature > Theory, etc. Translating and interpreting Authorial intention. field theory. intentional fallacy. law and literature. Electronic books. Literary criticism Criticism, interpretation, etc. Literary criticism. Critiques littéraires.
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Table of Contents:

Frontmatter
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