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Validity in Interpretation

Validity in Interpretation

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PhilosophyLiterary Criticism

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ISBN10: 0300016921
ISBN13: 9780300016925
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: Sep 10 1973
Pages: 304
Weight: 0.82
Height: 0.82 Width: 5.13 Depth: 7.98
Language: English
Here is a book that brings logic to the most unruly of disciplines, literary interpretation. . . . This study is a necessary took for anyone who wants to talk sense about literature.--Virginia Quarterly Review

By demonstrating the uniformity and universality of the principles of valid interpretation of verbal texts of any sort, this closely reasoned examination provides a theoretical foundation for a discipline that is fundamental to virtually all humanistic studies. It defines the grounds on which textual interpretation can claim to establish objective knowledge, defends that claim against such skeptical attitudes as historicism and psychologism, and shows that many confusions can be avoided if the distinctions between meaning and significance, interpretation and criticism are correctly understood.

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