| Validity in Interpretation Revised Edition Contributor(s): Hirsch, E. D. (Author) |
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ISBN: 0300016921 ISBN-13: 9780300016925 Publisher: Yale University Press OUR PRICE: $30.69 Product Type: Paperback Published: September 1973 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Philosophy - Literary Criticism |
| Dewey: 801.95 |
| Physical Information: 0.82" H x 5.13" W x 7.98" (0.82 lbs) 304 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: "Here is a book that brings logic to the most unruly of disciplines, literary interpretation. . . . This study is a necessary took for anyone who wants to talk sense about literature."--Virginia Quarterly Review By demonstrating the uniformity and universality of the principles of valid interpretation of verbal texts of any sort, this closely reasoned examination provides a theoretical foundation for a discipline that is fundamental to virtually all humanistic studies. It defines the grounds on which textual interpretation can claim to establish objective knowledge, defends that claim against such skeptical attitudes as historicism and psychologism, and shows that many confusions can be avoided if the distinctions between meaning and significance, interpretation and criticism are correctly understood. |