...Siegfried J. Schmidt The academic debate on the interpretation of literary texts has always suffered from the semantic ambiguity of key concepts (literature, meaning,interpretation, literary study, etc.). To get out of this dead end, literary scholars have to step back from their daily routine from...

...Chris Andrews Certain members of the Oulipo, notably Raymond Queneau and Georges Perec, have used constraints to encode meanings as well as to structure and generate their works. Such formal encoding recruits and trains a readership prone to paranoid interpretation, a tendency opposed in recent...

..., and the Human Sciences: An Experiment in Philosophical Analysis,” in Speech Genres and Other Late Essays , translated by Vern W. McGee, edited by Caryl Emerson and Michael Holquist, 103 -31 (Austin: University of Texas Press). Culler, Jonathan 1981 [1976] “Beyond Interpretation,” in The Pursuit of Signs...

... Science and Literature: Bridging the Two Cultures (Gainesville:University Press of Florida). ‘‘Literary Interpretation’’ and Cognitive Literary Studies Tony E. Jackson English, North Carolina at Charlotte 6865 Poetics Today / 24...

...Tom Kindt; Hans-Harald Müller This contribution discusses the two programmatic assumptions made by David Darby in his outline of the history of narratology or Erzähltheorie (narrative theory).The first is that narratology ought to be remodeled into a contextualist theory of interpretation...

...Steven Willemsen; Rikke Andersen Kraglund; Emily T. Troscianko Narratology and literary studies have always had ambivalent attitudes toward interpretation. This article proposes that the recent divide between the research programs of cognitive and unnatural narratology is a new expression...

...Shoshana Benjamin My essay argues for the proposition that there are uniquely correct interpretations for cryptic texts. By cryptic text I mean a narrative that is designed to pose perplexing problems, the answers to which constitute hidden meanings or secrets. As a test case, I choose Henry...

... Science, Evolutionary Psychology, and Literary Criticism,” Poetics Today 21 : 319 -47. 2002 “Issues and Problems in the Blending of Cognitive Science, Evolutionary Psychology, and Literary Study,” Poetics Today 23 : 161 -79. 2003 “`Literary Interpretation' and Cognitive Literary Studies...

... ( Oxford : Oxford University Press ). Hutto Daniel D. 2005 “ Knowing What? Radical versus Conservative Enactivism ,” Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences 4 : 389 – 405 . Jackson Tony E. 2003 “ ‘Literary Interpretation’ and Cognitive Literary Studies ,” Poetics Today 24...

...Tamar Yacobi Interpretive disputes about the text's implied normative framework (its aesthetics, ideology, reality-model) involve the reliability of the fictive narrator who mediates between interpreter and implied author. Narrative and normative reconstruction must go together. But how...

.... Thomas’s The White Hotel , a prototypically “unnatural” novel in that the protagonist’s experience is caused by future events rather than by past ones. Our discussion of this novel shows situation models and interpretive strategies at work, exemplifying our claims and grounding them in a textual example...

... Press ). Interpreting Visual Metaphors: Asymmetry and Reversibility Bipin Indurkhya Jagiellonian University, Cracow, Poland Amitash Ojha University of Cagliari, Cagliari, Italy Abstract In a verbal metaphor, the target and the source domains can usually be distinguished clearly...

... precisely around 1630, and mainly in Italy. The most likely explanation is twofold. First, the interpretation of catastrophes no longer relies solely on religious explanations, but political and polemical ones are also starting to be considered. Second, the expression of a point of view contributes...

... and investigated, psychoanalysis and literature can become genuinely available to one another. Copyright © 2019 by Porter Institute for Poetics and Semiotics 2019 psychoanalytic criticism psychoanalysis hermeneutics interpretation References Barthes Roland . (1970) 1990 . S/Z...

.... narratology interpretation defamiliarization mimetic bias embodiment The first drafts of the essays in this special issue were presented in November 2016 at a workshop hosted by the Department of Culture and Aesthetics, Stockholm University (Sweden). The editors would like to thank Christer...

... is one to negotiate or manage such flux?Critics tend to select “key” lines or passages, treating these as interpretative centers or “nodes” around which to organize the heterogeneous materials of the poem. Other materials come to be subordinated in various ways (explicitly or, more often, implicitly...

... well displace the relativistic interpretive paradigms that have dominated the humanities for the last few decades. Through a review of a number of recently published works, I assess the situation of these two fields in relation to the specific, currently reigning approaches to literary study as well...

...Douglas Morrey Submission (2015), a novel in which a Muslim political party is elected to govern France, has been widely interpreted as part of a ubiquitous discourse of “declinism” in contemporary French intellectual culture. The novel has been accused of complicity with a reactionary politics...

...H. Porter Abbott From a cognitivist perspective, I defend the utility of the implied author for the interpretation of fictional texts that support more than one intentional reading. David Herman (2008) provides a foil in his opposition to the implied author as object-like source and his promotion...

... form while also engaging its immediate historical context of 1651 northern England, “Upon Appleton House” offers a dynamic, relational model of how history, form, and interpretation articulate one another's conditions of possibility. This suggests that criticism should acknowledge form as an element...