Range of Interpretation

Name: Range of Interpretation
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ISBN: 9780231119030

ISBN-10: 0231119038

ISBN-13: 9780231119030

Edition: 2000

Authors: Wolfgang Iser

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There is a tacit assumption that interpretation comes naturally, that human beings live by constantly interpreting. In this sense, we might even rephrase Descartes by saying: We interpret, therefore we are. While such a basic human disposition makes interpretation appear to come naturally, the forms it takes, however, do not. In this work, Iser offers a fresh approach by formulating an "anatomy of interpretation" through which we can understand the act of interpretation in its many different manifestations. For Iser, there are several different genres of interpretation, all of which are acts of translation designed to transpose something into something else. Perhaps the most obvious…

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List price: $34.00
Copyright year: 2000
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Publication date: 9/18/2001
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 224
Size: 7.52" wide x 8.94" long x 0.61" tall
Weight: 0.682
Language: English



Preface



Introduction


The Marketplace of Interpretation


Interpretation as Translatability



The Authority of the Canon


Canonization and Midrash


The Literary Canon: Dr. Johnson on Shakespeare



The Hermeneutic Circle


Friedrich Daniel Ernst Schleiermacher: Self-Reflective Circularity


Johann Gustav Droysen: The Nesting of Circles


Paul Ricoeur: Transactional Loops



The Recursive Loop


Recursion in Ethnographic Discourse


Systemic Recursion



The Traveling Differential: Franz Rosenzweig, The Star of Redemption


"The Birth of the Elements Out of the Somber Foundations of Nought"


Proliferating Translatability



Configurations of Interpretation: An Epilogue


Appendix


The Emergence of a Cross-Cultural Discourse: Thomas Carlyle's Sartor Resartus


Enfoldings in Paterian Discourse: Modes of Translatability


Index