Introduction
Part I: Philosophical Hermeneutic Tradition and Literary/Cultural Hermeneutics
Chapter 1. Philosophical Hermeneutic Tradition
Chapter 2. Literary and Cultural Hermeneutics
Part II: Literary/Cultural Hermeneutics and Shakespearean Tradition
Chapter 3. Historical Consciousness, Historically Effected Consciousness: Adapting Henry V
Chapter 4. Cultural Dimension of Literary Interpretation: Geography, Economics, and Identity in The Comedy of Errors
Chapter 5. Fusion of Horizons: Antonio’s Melancholy - Money and Credit in The Merchant of Venice
Chapter 6. Hermeneutics and Locality: Hamlet in China - Glocalising Humanism, Glocalising Desire
Biography
Min Jiao is Professor of English at the Guangdong University of Foreign Studies and a researcher at the university’s Hermeneutic Research Institute. She has published around 30 articles in Chinese and English. Her major publications include "Mothering and Motherhood: Experience, Ideology and Agency" in Comparative Literature Studies, "Cognitive Mapping of Freedom: Jonathan Franzen’s Freedom" in Neohelicon, "Ideology of Sexuality in Measure for Measure" in Foreign Literature Studies, and "Shakespeare and Econo-literary Criticism" in Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art. Her forthcoming monograph Literary Hermeneutics: Dimensions and Fusion of Horizons is funded by the Chinese National Social Science Foundation.
