Name: Validity in Interpretation
Price: 24.49 USD
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ISBN: 9780300016925

Here is a book that brings logic to the most unruly disciplines, literary interpretation. Viewing this subject within the tradition of hermeneutics, Hirsch is able to trace its origins and development with brilliant insight.

The result is lucidity systematic and authoritative account of the premises and procedures applicable to the interpretation of the literary text. Hirsch has performed a monumental service thereby, that of reinstating the credentials of objectivism and defining the limits of the aesthetics of truth. This study is a necessary tool for anyone who wants to talk sense about literature.

Title: Validity in Interpretation
By: E.D. Hirsch Jr.
Format: Paperback
Vendor: Yale University Press
Publication Date: 1973

Dimensions: 7.98 X 5.13 (inches)
Weight: 10 ounces
ISBN: 0300016921
ISBN-13: 9780300016925
Stock No: WW016920

"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.

"Here is a book that brings logic to the most unruly of disciplines, literary interpretation. Viewing this subject within the tradition of hermeneutics, Mr. Hirsch is able to trace its origins and development with brilliant insight. The result is a lucidly systemic and authoritative account of the premises and procedures applicable to the interpretation of a literary text. Mr. Hirsch has performed a monumental service thereby that of reinstating the credentials of objectivism and defining the limits of the aesthetics of truth. This study is a necessary took for anyone who wants to talk sense about literature."—Virginia Quarterly Review

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