Intention and Interpretation: A Short History

Ralf Grüttemeier

book: Intention and Interpretation: A Short History

Open Access Published by De Gruyter 2022

Intention and Interpretation: A Short History

Ralf Grüttemeier

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110767858

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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 debates grew increasingly fierce during the post-World War II period, the landmarks of which were the notions of intentional fallacy and the death of the author. Seventy-odd years later, there is still no consensus in sight. What has always been neglected in the debates around authorial intention, however, is a reflection on the historical dimension of the debate and how historically bound each of the theoretical positions in the debate were. This book focusses precisely on the historical dimension of authorial intention, providing a systematic historical reconstruction of the importance ascribed to it in literary texts from Classical Greece to the present day, and including a chapter on authorial intention in jurisdiction and legal interpretation from a historical perspective. The book reconstructs a typology of the most important concepts of intention in interpretation for diachronic and synchronic use. At the same time it offers insights from a field-theoretical perspective into how literary studies as a discipline works over time and how notions of intention and interpretation help create forms of literary knowledge.

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Ralf Grüttemeier, Carl von Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg, Germany.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	I
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	V
Introduction Intention and interpretation from a historical perspective Open Access Download PDF	1
Chapter One The shaping of authorial intention in Classical antiquity Open Access Download PDF	15
Chapter Two The standard model of authorial intention in the Middle Ages Open Access Download PDF	53
Chapter Three Sharpening the edges of the standard model of authorial intention in the Renaissance Open Access Download PDF	73
Chapter Four To understand the author better than he understands himself. From the hermeneutics of the Enlightenment to Russian Formalism Open Access Download PDF	105
Chapter Five Intentional fallacy and its slipstream – on New Critics, intentionalists and poststructuralists Open Access Download PDF	130
Chapter Six Authorial intention in jurisprudence and legal theory Open Access Download PDF	168
Conclusion and outlook Open Access Download PDF	192
Index Open Access Download PDF	204
Open-Access-Transformation in Literary Studies Open Access Download PDF	208

(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: De Gruyter
Audience: Scholars in the fields of literary studies, Law and Literature, field theory, historians of academic disciplines.
Pages
- Front matter: 6
- Main content: 208
Keywords: Authorial intention; intentional fallacy; field theory; law and literature

eBook

Published: February 7, 2022
ISBN: 9783110767858

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Published: February 21, 2022
ISBN: 9783110761412