...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...

..., 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...

...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...

...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...

...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...

... ( 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...

.... 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...

... the source and the target, instead of the target itself. The examples demonstrate that context plays a major role in this process by identifying the source and the target of a visual metaphor. Interpreting Visual Metaphors: Asymmetry and Reversibility Bipin Indurkhya Jagiellonian University, Cracow...

... 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...

..., hermeneutics, interpretation 1. Literature and Psychoanalysis Psychoanalytic literary criticism, Peter Brooks (1987: 334) wrote, has always been something of an embarrassment. It remains unclear how criti- cism might be at once psychoanalytic and literary, without compromising either half of the equation...

.... 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...

...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...

...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...

... in opposition to poetic content— this is a false definitional binary. Second, form and free verse are another false binary, as poems can be written in free verse and also have form, as Whitman’s poetry is and does. Third, form is not just a rubric with which critics interpret poems but the logic by which poems...