- Title
- Interpretation
- Creator
- Gulddal, Jesper
- Relation
- Literature: An Introduction to Theory and Analysis p. 16-26
- Relation
- https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/literature-an-introduction-to-theory-and-analysis-9781474271981/
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury
- Resource Type
- book chapter
- Date
- 2017
- Description
- Interpretation in the context of literary studies can be defined as the methodologically reflected procedure we employ in order to understand a literary text. As such, interpretation is a response to the experience of textual complexity. In our everyday lives we are surrounded by information that is self-evident in the sense of being semantically transparent to such a degree that there is no need for a sustained effort of understanding. However, such self-evidence is rare in literature. Whether due to the historical or cultural distance that separates authors from readers or to the difficulty of literary language itself, the literary text tends to meet us with a certain degree of foreignness that sometimes makes us give up in frustration, but more often stimulates our curiosity and encourages further investigation. It is ultimately this encounter with incomprehensibility, which is central to the reading of literary texts, that forces us to reflect on the questions of interpretation and understanding.
- Subject
- literature; literary studies; interpretation; hermeneutics
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1385028
- Identifier
- uon:32158
- Identifier
- ISBN:9781474271974
- Language
- eng
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