- Title
- Fortolkning
- Creator
- Gulddal, Jesper
- Relation
- Litteratur. Introduktion til teori og analyse p. 23-33
- Publisher
- Aarhus Universitetsforlag
- Resource Type
- book chapter
- Date
- 2012
- Description
- Forming part of a volume on the key concepts of literary studies, this article analyses the concept of literary interpretation. I firstly discuss the hermeneutical tradition in its classical and modern forms as well as the so-called hermeneutic circle, which, as I argue, could be construed as a procedure, but should in fact be seen as a principle of coherence for validity in interpretation; these ideas are then pursued further in the context of a problem of interpretation in Ibsen's Pillars of Society. As a second step, I introduce a distinction between criticism of hermeneutics and anti-hermeneutics. The former position, exemplified by Habermas and Derrida, is characterised by rejecting the hermeneutic project while remaining committed to the interpretation of individual texts. The second position, on the other hand, represented here by Sontag, Gumbrecht and Moretti, seeks to replace interpretation with something else, variously described as "erotics of art", "presence" and "distant reading". By way of conclusion, I argue that, in spite of the critique levelled against it, hermeneutics has recently regained its topicality as a result of the new focus on World Literature. Just like the hermeneutics of the past was created to overcome historical distances, a modern hermeneutics is needed to address cultural distances in a time of globalisation.
- Subject
- literary studies; literary interpretation; hermeneutic circle; World Literature; hermeneutics
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1324586
- Identifier
- uon:25069
- Identifier
- ISBN:9788779347304
- Language
- eng
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