Hermeneutics As A Theory Of Interpretation And As A Literary Theory

Author : Ikechukwu Aloysius Orjinta
Publisher : GRIN Verlag
Page : 69 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2012-03-29
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9783656160939

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Hermeneutics As a Theory of Interpretation and As a Literary Theory by Ikechukwu Aloysius Orjinta Pdf

Scientific Essay from the year 2012 in the subject Literature - Africa, University of Nigeria, language: English, abstract: Theories of language, linguistic and non linguistic communication are diverse. In the Humanities there are so many interpretative tools. These tools are means to an end and not the end in themselves. Just as we have equations in the natural sciences so do we have theoretical frameworks, literary criticisms and approaches to literature and the communication arts in the Humanities. These interpretative tools are keys to opening and analyzing works in the Humanities and other disciplines. Most of these theories are borrowed from other disciplines other than the ones exploiting them. In the literary sciences, rooms are given for inter-textual interpretations as well as for interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary approaches. Hence one could analyze a given fiction, drama or poem using one or more approaches as the case may be. At the primary and secondary school level, essays are simply written and novels are simply read and interpreted by simple minds. But at the tertiary educational level, one would expect the reader, the critic or the recipient to be thorough, analytical and scientific in his appraisal of the text before him. In receptions-theory the analytical mind is not left empty handed in this art of researching on or beyond the text .For one to access these tools effectively one must be equipped with literary terms. Interpretative tools are legion. Some are text-centered and linguistic and others are extra-textual and non linguistic. Hermeneutics and the sister theoretical frameworks like the positivism, formalism, explication de texte, New Criticism, Structuralism, post-structuralism, Semiotics, de-construction etc are text-centered interpretative tools while the society based theories like Marxist-socialism, psycho-analytic theory, feminism, receptions-theory, racial theory, cultural and intercultural studies, Literature and the media, l

Author : Ikechukwu Aloysius Orjinta
Publisher : GRIN Verlag
Page : 33 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2012-03-27
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9783656160090

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Hermeneutics as a Theory of Interpretation and as a Literary Theory by Ikechukwu Aloysius Orjinta Pdf

Scientific Essay from the year 2012 in the subject Literature - Africa, University of Nigeria, language: English, abstract: Theories of language, linguistic and non linguistic communication are diverse. In the Humanities there are so many interpretative tools. These tools are means to an end and not the end in themselves. Just as we have equations in the natural sciences so do we have theoretical frameworks, literary criticisms and approaches to literature and the communication arts in the Humanities. These interpretative tools are keys to opening and analyzing works in the Humanities and other disciplines. Most of these theories are borrowed from other disciplines other than the ones exploiting them. In the literary sciences, rooms are given for inter-textual interpretations as well as for interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary approaches. Hence one could analyze a given fiction, drama or poem using one or more approaches as the case may be. At the primary and secondary school level, essays are simply written and novels are simply read and interpreted by simple minds. But at the tertiary educational level, one would expect the reader, the critic or the recipient to be thorough, analytical and scientific in his appraisal of the text before him. In receptions-theory the analytical mind is not left empty handed in this art of researching on or beyond the text .For one to access these tools effectively one must be equipped with literary terms. Interpretative tools are legion. Some are text-centered and linguistic and others are extra-textual and non linguistic. Hermeneutics and the sister theoretical frameworks like the positivism, formalism, explication de texte, New Criticism, Structuralism, post-structuralism, Semiotics, de-construction etc are text-centered interpretative tools while the society based theories like Marxist-socialism, psycho-analytic theory, feminism, receptions-theory, racial theory, cultural and intercultural studies, Literature and the media, literature and history, literature and biography etc fall under the beyond textual interpretative approaches. Our interest in this exercise is on the raw textual analytic approach. Many students usually prefer the easier approaches which are mostly society based and abhor the dry and puritanist approaches. This paper is aimed at introducing the audience to the rigors of scientific approaches to the study of texts, images and languages.

Author : Joel Weinsheimer,Professor Joel Weinsheimer
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 173 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0300047851

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Philosophical Hermeneutics and Literary Theory by Joel Weinsheimer,Professor Joel Weinsheimer Pdf

In this lucid and elegantly written book, Joel Weinsheimer discusses how the insights of Hans-Georg Gadamer alter our understanding of literary theory and interpretation. Weinsheimer begins by surveying modern hermeneutics from Schleiermacher to Ricoeur, showing that Gadamer's work is situated in the middle of an onging dialogue. Gadamer's hermenutics says, Weinsheimer, is specifically philosophical, for it explores how understanding occurs at all, not how it should be regulated in order to function more rigorously or effectively. According to Weinsheimer, Gadamer views understanding as an effect of history, not an action but a passion, something that happens on metaphor: it fuses the different into the same but, like metaphor, does not repress difference. Similarly, Gadamer's critique of the semiotic conception of language redresses the balance between difference and sameness in the relation of word and world. The common thread in the contributions of philosophical hermeneutics to literary theory is the multifaceted tension between the one and the many, between sameness and difference. This appears in metaphor and application, in the complex dialogue between the past and present, and between the interpretation and the interpreted generally. In the final chapter of the book, "The Question of the Classic," Weinsheimer explores the implications of this analysis of Gadamer's hermeneutics for the current debate concerning the study of the canon and the classic.

Author : Peter Szondi
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1995-02-24
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0521459311

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Introduction to Literary Hermeneutics by Peter Szondi Pdf

Peter Szondi is widely regarded as being among the most distinguished post-war literary critics. This first English edition of one of his most lucid and interesting series of lectures opens up his work in hermeneutics for English-speaking readers. The question of what is involved in understanding a text occupied Biblical and legal scholars long before it became a concern of literary critics. Peter Szondi here traces the development of hermeneutics through examination of the work of eighteenth-century German scholars. Ordinarily treated only as prefigurations of Schleiermacher, the work of Enlightenment theorists Johann Martin Chladenius, George Friedrich Meier, and Friedrich Ast yields valuable insight into the 'material theory' of interpretation, on which a practical interpretive methodology might be built.

Author : Tomasz Kalaga
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 155 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2015-06-18
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781443879309

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Literary Hermeneutics by Tomasz Kalaga Pdf

This book analyses the most significant aspects of the evolutionary process which occurred in literary hermeneutics: the shift from interpretation perceived as a methodology of reading to the ontological function of exegesis. Through the discussion of the theories of Friedrich Schleiermacher, Eric Donald Hirsch, Hans-Georg Gadamer and Paul Ricoeur, it focuses on the metamorphosis of the concepts of meaning, interpretation and validity, and demonstrates how the correlative changes in the essence and functions of these three elements transformed the art of understanding from being a methodological discipline to an ontological instrument for a re-description of the interpreter’s self. The book highlights the development of those aspects of hermeneutic thought which are of particular significance in the contemporary debate over validity and criteria of interpretation. The vision of hermeneutics proposed here contradicts the supposedly anachronistic character of the art of understanding, and, through a permanent departure from essentialist views and categories, enables it to enter into a discussion with such literary orientations as neo-pragmatism and reader-response theory.

Author : Michael N. Forster,Kristin Gjesdal
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 435 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2019-01-03
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781107187603

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The Cambridge Companion to Hermeneutics by Michael N. Forster,Kristin Gjesdal Pdf

Explores the relevance of hermeneutics for modern human sciences, its history and development, and its key philosophical debates.

Author : William Elford Rogers
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2010-11-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780271040233

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Interpreting Interpretation by William Elford Rogers Pdf

Author : Sanford Levinson,Steven Mailloux
Publisher : Northwestern University Press
Page : 524 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Law
ISBN : 0810107937

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Interpreting Law and Literature by Sanford Levinson,Steven Mailloux Pdf

From the Preface: "Contemporary theory has usefully analyzed how alternative modes of interpretation produce different meanings, how reading itself is constituted by the variable perspectives of readers, and how these perspectives are in turn defined by prejudices, ideologies, interests, and so forth. Some theorists gave argued persuasively that textual meaning, in literature and in literary interpretation, is structured by repression and forgetting, by what the literary or critical text does not say as much as by what it does. All these claims are directly relevant to legal hermeneutics, and thus it is no surprise that legal theorists have recently been turning to literary theory for potential insight into the interpretation of law. This collection of essays is designed to represent the especially rich interactive that has taken place between legal and literary hermeneutics during the past ten years."

Author : Paul F. Kisak
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2016-05-24
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1533448094

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Hermeneutics by Paul F. Kisak Pdf

Hermeneutics is the theory and methodology of text interpretation, especially the interpretation of biblical texts, wisdom literature, and philosophical texts. The word itself is derived from the Greek god Hermes who was regarded as the messenger of the gods. The early usage of "hermeneutics" places it within the boundaries of the sacred. A divine message must be received with implicit uncertainty regarding its truth. This ambiguity is an irrationality; it is a sort of madness that is inflicted upon the receiver of the message. Only one who possesses a rational method of interpretation (i.e., a hermeneutic) could determine the truth or falsity of the message. Hermeneutics was initially applied to the interpretation, or exegesis, of scripture. It emerged as a theory of understanding. Exegesis focuses primarily upon texts. Modern hermeneutics includes both verbal and non-verbal communication as well as semiotics, presuppositions, prejudice and the bias that is inherent in all literature. This book is designed to be a reference and provide an overview of the topic and give the reader a structured knowledge to familiarize yourself with the topic at the most affordable price possible. The accuracy and knowledge is of an international viewpoint as the edited articles represent the inputs of many knowledgeable individuals and some of the most current knowledge on the topic, based on the date of publication.

Author : Jens Zimmermann
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2015-10-22
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780191508547

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Hermeneutics: A Very Short Introduction by Jens Zimmermann Pdf

Hermeneutics is the branch of knowledge that deals with interpretation, a behaviour that is intrinsic to our daily lives. As humans, we decipher the meaning of newspaper articles, books, legal matters, religious texts, political speeches, emails, and even dinner conversations every day . But how is knowledge mediated through these forms? What constitutes the process of interpretation? And how do we draw meaning from the world around us so that we might understand our position in it? In this Very Short Introduction Jens Zimmermann traces the history of hermeneutic theory, setting out its key elements, and demonstrating how they can be applied to a broad range of disciplines: theology; literature; law; and natural and social sciences. Demonstrating the longstanding and wide-ranging necessity of interpretation, Zimmermann reveals its significance in our current social and political landscape. ABOUT THE SERIES: The Very Short Introductions series from Oxford University Press contains hundreds of titles in almost every subject area. These pocket-sized books are the perfect way to get ahead in a new subject quickly. Our expert authors combine facts, analysis, perspective, new ideas, and enthusiasm to make interesting and challenging topics highly readable.

Author : Ann Loades,Michael McLain
Publisher : Springer
Page : 207 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1992-06-12
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781349219865

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Hermeneutics, the Bible and Literary Criticism by Ann Loades,Michael McLain Pdf

The essays in this collection fall into three groups. The first group deals with philosophical accounts of interpretation. The second is concerned with the interpretation of scripture with particular reference to the work of the Oxford theologian and philosopher Austin Farrer. The third group provides some examples of interpretative practice relating to Genesis and the book of Psalms. The contributors represent a wide range of academic disciplines and religious traditions, providing significant pointers for further developments in Biblical criticism and interpretation theory.

Author : Emilio Betti
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 76 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2021-03-30
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781000365009

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Hermeneutics as a General Methodology of the Sciences of the Spirit by Emilio Betti Pdf

With a Foreword by Lars Vinx, this book is the first complete English translation of the Italian jurist, Emilio Betti’s classic work Die Hermeneutik als allgemeine Methodik der Geisteswissenschaften, originally published in 1962. Betti’s hermeneutical theory is presented here as a ‘general methodology of the sciences of the spirit’, such as to allow the achievement of objectivity, however relative it might be. Its central focus is the tension between an object, to be considered in its autonomy, and the subjectivity of the interpreter, who can understand the object only by means of his or her own categories, historical-cultural conditions, and interests. Set against the work of Bultmann and Gadamer, Betti is concerned to limit the arbitrariness of subjectivity without diminishing the place of interpretation. Detailing the principles that govern, and therefore, guide any interpretation, Betti traces how interpretation in art and in literature, as well as in the fields of science, jurisprudence, sociology, and economy, can be said to be objective, albeit only ever in a relative sense. This summa of Betti’s key contribution to hermeneutic theory will be of interest across a range of disciplines, including legal and literary theory, philosophy, as well as the history and sociology of law.

Author : John B. Thompson,John Brookshire Thompson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0521276667

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Critical Hermeneutics by John B. Thompson,John Brookshire Thompson Pdf

A comparative critique of ordinary language philosophy, hermeneutics and critical theory.

Author : Richard E. Palmer
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1982
Category : Hermeneutics
ISBN : OCLC:844552768

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Hermeneutics: interpretation theory in Schleiermacher, Dilthey, Heidegger and Gadamer by Richard E. Palmer Pdf

Author : Thomas M Seebohm
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 285 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781402026171

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Hermeneutics. Method and Methodology by Thomas M Seebohm Pdf

The goal of the investigation is a phenomenological theory of the methods and later the methodology of the human sciences, first of all the philological interpretation of texts. The first part is a critical reflection on the historical development of hermeneutics as method of interpreting texts and the tradition including the first steps toward the emergence of scientific methodological hermeneutics. Such reflections show that the development of hermeneutics is onesidedly founded in the development of hermeneutical consciousness, i.e. the changing attitudes in the application and rejection of cultural traditions. All methods and finally methodologies are onesidedly founded in the activities of the lifeworld. The second part is a first attempt to develop an outline of a general phenomenological theory of pre-methodical and methodical understanding in the lifeworld. The third part offers a critical phenomenologically guided analysis of methodological hermeneutics.