... Neuroscience of Mindreading ( 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...

...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 of a...

...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...

...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...

... 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...

... 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; the...

... 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...

... , 305 – 57 ( Princeton, NJ : Princeton University 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...

... 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 to this...

.... 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...

...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 to...

... 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 as...

... 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) to...

...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...

... doublet. However, I would argue, their analysis, apart and a fortiori together, yields theoretical, interpretative, even art-historical conclusions that extend beyond either of the special cases or their joint product. Ekphrastic double exposure simultaneously evokes a number of totally unrelated visual...

... interpretation of these texts and to handle interpretative lacunae through metacognitive inquiry. © 2013 by Porter Institute for Poetics and Semiotics 2013 I gratefully acknowledge financial support from the Spanish government, Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación, through research grant no. FFI2011...

... 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 of...

... the effect that Victor Shklovsky called defamiliarization. Perhaps what is most interesting about this reward in Proust is that readers must restructure their everyday interpretive habits to experience it. The sensation of renewed vision is available only to those who, through both careful reading and...