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Manners of Interpretation: The Ends of Argument in Literary Studies

English · Hardback

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Philosophy and literary theory have devoted a great deal of their analysis to the problem of the origin and modalities of argumentation, but there has been an almost total lack of interest in the question of its procedural limits. Manners of Interpretation is an essay on ways of ending interpretations in literary studies as well as on patterns of controversy and consensus in the humanities. Tamen examines two major families of indisputable arguments in post-Enlightenment literary criticism and addresses the question of how one recognizes the proper time to use a given argument, especially and specifically an indisputable argument. The former aim leads to a tentative history of the constitution of literary theory as a set of identifiable ways of using arguments. The latter, meanwhile, points to a theory of argument and controversy and to a contribution to the discussion of human activities that, in spite of not being teachable, are nevertheless learnable. Such a theory seems to be particularly relevant both to the study of the interpretive dimension of literary criticism as it is now practiced and also to the knowledge and description of an area of the humanities that has often been neglected.


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Miguel Tamen is Assistant Professor in the Department of Romance Literatures and Graduate Program in Literary Theory, University of Lisbon. He is the author of Hermenêutica e mal-estar.


Product details

Authors Miguel Tamen
Publisher Global Academic Publishing
 
Languages English
Product format Hardback
Released 01.08.1993
 
EAN 9780791415030
ISBN 978-0-7914-1503-0
No. of pages 211
Weight 490 g
Series SUNY Series in Philosophy
SUNY series in Philosophy
Suny Series, the Margins of Li
Subject Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education

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