1st Edition

The Reading of Theoretical Texts

By Peter Ekegren Copyright 1999
232 Pages
by Routledge

230 Pages
by Routledge

232 Pages
by Routledge

Since the structuralist debates of the 1970s the field of textual analysis has largely remained the preserve of literary theorists. Social scientists, while accepting that observation is theory laden have tended to take the meaning of texts as given and to explain differences of interpretation either in terms of ignorance or bias. In this important contribution to methodological debate, Peter... Read more
1. General Introduction 2. The Social Sciences and Criticism 3. Language and Criticism 4. The Understandings of Quentin Skinner 5. The Teleological Mode of Reading 6. Interpretation and the Harmonious Whole 7. Holes in Wholes in Wholes

Biography

Peter Ekegren