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Literary Meaning: Reclaiming the Study of Literature
Wendell V. Harris
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Description for Literary Meaning: Reclaiming the Study of Literature
Paperback. Today's student of literature is faced with an overwhelming variety of critical approaches, this work argues. It therefore 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. Num Pages: 245 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 19. Weight in Grams: 428.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1995
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
248
Condition
New
Number of Pages
240
Place of Publication
Basingstoke, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780333640159
SKU
V9780333640159
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