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Literary Meaning: Reclaiming the Study of Literature

Literary Meaning: Reclaiming the Study of Literature

Harris, Wendall V.

Paperback

Series: Reclaiming the Study of Literature

Literary Criticism

ISBN10: 0333640152
ISBN13: 9780333640159
Publisher: Springer Nature
Published: Dec 18 1995
Pages: 240
Weight: 0.70
Height: 0.56 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
Today's student of literature is faced with an overwhelming variety of critical approaches. The need to evaluate their usefulness in furthering our understanding of literature is therefore a growing concern. In Literary Meaning, Wendell V. Harris explores the fallacies behind the fashionable hermeticism that insists that the meaning of a text is indeterminate and divides language from any reality beyond itself. Harris then puts forward a powerful case for the return to hermeneutics, in which an understanding of the author's intended meaning is the first step in reading, and at the same time insists upon the hollowness of the current mode of professionalism in literature departments. Set to provoke fierce debate, this controversial book will become essential reading for all those involved in literary criticism.

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