Intention and Text
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Intention and Text

Towards an Intentionality of Literary Form

  1. 192 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Intention and Text

Towards an Intentionality of Literary Form

About this book

The question of intention is central to the study of literature. How far can an author's intentions determine the meanings of his/her text? What do we mean by 'intention' in a literary context? What force does the reader's intention have in the construction of textual meaning? To what extent can a text itself be said to be 'intentional'?
The aim of this book is to provide an in-depth analysis and critique of this concept of intention, its uses within the realms of literary theory, aesthetics, philosophy of language, phenomenology and deconstruction, and its potential for redefinition. Mitchell sets out to re-think intention and interrogate the possibilities of an intentionalism more suited to a formalist or textualist critical methodology. She moves from an assessment of the pitfalls of a traditional authorial intentionalism, towards the formulation of an 'intentionality of form', where intention is seen as a formal attribute of the text itself

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Information

Publisher
Continuum
Year
2008
Print ISBN
9781441198648
eBook ISBN
9781441197382
Edition
1
Topic
Literature
Subtopic
Literary Criticism Theory
Index
Literature

Table of contents

  1. Contents
  2. Preface: Intentions
  3. Acknowledgements
  4. Introduction: Beginnings: The Birth of a Fallacy
  5. Chapter 1: ‘The Soul of Speech’: E. D. Hirsch and the Ethics of Authorial Intentionalism
  6. Chapter 2: Intention, Illocution, Mimesis
  7. Chapter 3: Intentionality: Meaning and the Mental
  8. Chapter 4: Intention after the Subject
  9. Conclusion: The Ethics and Pragmatics of Intentionality
  10. Bibliography
  11. Index