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Shadows in the Cave: A Phenomenological Approach to Literary Criticism Based on Hispanic Texts

Shadows in the Cave: A Phenomenological Approach to Literary Criticism Based on Hispanic Texts

Valdes, Mario

Paperback

Series: Heritage

Literary CriticismFiction Anthologies

ISBN10: 1487585330
ISBN13: 9781487585334
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Published: Dec 15 1982
Pages: 232
Weight: 0.73
Height: 0.49 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English

Professor Valdes presents a theory of literary criticism based on phenomenological philosophy - primarily the work of Husserl, Ingarden, Merleau-Ponty, and Ricoeur. His basic argument is that literary texts are inexhaustible sources of imaginative creativity for their readers, and, further, that this openness does not inhibit serious commentary but rather enhances the critic's possibilities of exchange, dialogue, and intellectual enrichment. He argues for a system of classification of narrative texts according to phenomenological principles in which form is considered as a heuristic device established for the purpose of understanding the nature of literary expression. The only critical approach he holds to be untenable is that which lays claim to a definitive interpretation of a text, for such an approach would mean the death of the literary text as a creative source.

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