Intention Interpretation
by Project Muse, Iseminger, Gary
fromBook collections on Project MUSE
Intention and interpretation
by Iseminger, Gary, Hermerén, Göran
fromArts and their philosophies
"What is the connection, if any, between the author's intentions in (while) writing a work of literature and the truth (acceptability, validity) of interpretive statements about it?" With this question, Gary Iseminger introduces a literary debate that has been waged for the past…
"" ... An excellent and comprehensive discussion of a debate that was initiated in this century in William Wimsatt's and Monroe C. Beardsley's influential article 'The Intentional Fallacy.' ... this is a splendidly conceived and very useful collection of essays. Readers will wan…
