... on the analysis of Pamela, my purpose here will be to describe the mechanics of the trial narrative and its structural effects on the idea of happiness-effects from which we have yet to recover. The Classical Hermeneutic of Happiness: Happiness in Mourning The secret achievement of the trial...

... to the rising science of architectural acoustics and to the social imperative to control sound in urban spaces. It argues that Woolf responds to the psychological and social exigencies of modern sound by integrating textual and architectural listening modes in an acoustic hermeneutic : a listening practice...

...Anne Anlin Cheng What is reading; what can it do; and can we imagine a hermeneutics beyond suspicion? This brief essay meditates on the possibilities of what might be called a hermeneutics of susceptibility that can accommodate our ideological and aesthetic complicity in any act of reading while...

... Freud states in Studies on Hysteria that “it is difficult to attribute too much sense” to what may seem minor details (such as tics), neurology tends to grant them no meaning whatsoever. Where does this leave a literary-critical hermeneutics that has tended to take the Freudian view here as its default...

... in the status of the future between a novel and lived experience and in the process of actively making present the events of a novel referred to in retrospect. The essay offers a hermeneutic circle between presentification and depresentification as an account of the relationship between the time of a novel...

...Theodore Martin What does it mean to read like a detective? While critics have long seen the detective novel as a model for hermeneutic suspicion (the familiar spatial binaries of surface/depth, concealed/revealed), this essay proposes that there is something more timely at work in detective work...

... of the false scene of politics, the invocation of a fusional community to come, or the evocation of an atomized, molecular, apathic, indifferent equality that renders political equality inoperable. My article questions the hermeneutics of Rancière's paradigm of aesthetics. Showing how Rancière's thinking...

...Héctor Hoyos Abstract New materialist approaches to the novel call into question the hermeneutical value of suspicion and critique. Meanwhile, historical materialism tends to neglect aspects of form, focusing instead on social function. Drawing from Las comidas profundas (1997), by Cuban writer...

...Joseph Lavery “ The Mikado' s Queer Realism: Law, Genre, Knowledge” offers a hermeneutic history of the Gilbert and Sullivan light opera, arguing that the now ubiquitous assertion that it is not “about Japan” became critical only in the aftermath of the Russo-Japanese War and reflected a pervasive...

... of theory. It was thus that paranoia became once again the domain of political ideologues and their fervent supporters rather than a viable mode of literary critical engagement. Against recent postcritical dismissals of critique and other suspicious hermeneutics, the article argues that paranoia offers one...

... and adapting the lan- guages of evolution and cognitive science, tapping the resources of new media and game theory, questioning traditional approaches to hermeneutics, rhetorical analysis, and close reading. Our forum was designed to capture the exceptional range and significant challenge of this new...

...,” by the turn of the century time takes on new meaning by providing “a vision into hidden things, into deep structures of meaning” (10). The moment loses significance as a conduit of bodily experience and feeling and takes on a hermeneutic function that provides access to the symbolic. As the moment...

... of Minnesota P, 1997 . Foucault , Michel . Ethics, Subjectivity, and Truth. The Essential Works of Michel Foucault, 1954-1984, Volume 1 . Ed. Rabinow Paul. Trans. Robert Hurley et al. New York: New Press, 1997 . ———. The Hermeneutics of the Subject: Lectures at the Collège de France . Ed...

... pleasure in a hermeneutics of suspicion that she transforms into a method of reparation, illustrating the mutually dependent relationship between a suspicious and a reparative hermeneutics ( Sedgwick 124 ). When Maisie joins in with another character's lies she makes them performatively true. Maisie...

... than offer either a critique of the concept of hermeneutics or a defense of the irreducible materiality of texts understood as surfaces without depths, the proponents of surface reading prefer to confront objectionable reading practices with their concrete effects. By diverting attention from the text...

... that "the story not only interprets, it is about interpretation. It is not only that Robinson's doings and the things that happen to him are the subject of in- terpretation by the narrator and the reader: He himself is an interpretant, a hermeneut" (31- 32). Moreover, he continues, "Defoe's book...

...; Algerians Wattar and Assia Djebar; and Moroccans Driss Chraibi and Barada. El Shakry's theoretically informed and Sufi-inflected close reading of these complex and often experimental novels proposes “ethical ways of approaching questions of writing, reading, and literary hermeneutics” (5). El Shakry...

... in a poetic or rhetorical sense” (26). The meanings of dynamic form, exemplary shape, and rhetorical deviation are later historically inflected by Christian hermeneutics in the practice of figural or typological interpretation, which reads persons and events from the Hebrew Scriptures as figura...

..., since it is wary of what is labeled (such as by Keane and Lawn 126–27 ) the “hermeneutics of suspicion.” 1 The metasuspicious is a broad critical family stretching from Susan Sontag's 1964 essay “Against Interpretation”—which Attridge's title echoes—to Stephen Best and Sharon Marcus's “Surface...

...-simplification, I shall call this critical thinking the "hermeneutic paradigm" and the narrative that supported it, Kantian. One way of putting the Kantian narrative is that it was a story of how a more active, shaping theory of the imagination (whereby the world was seen to be constituted...