![]() ![]() We willĪrgue that concept-based interpretation, reading along thematic lines, is itself best understood as a Knowledge involved in performative operations-a practice of everyday imaginative life. The alternative moves to break beyond conceptual analysis into the kinds of But it does try to set these modes of exegesis on a ThisĪlternative does not stand opposed to interpretive procedures as such, nor to the elaboration ofĬonceptual equivalents for imaginative work. Perhaps as ancient as more normative practices, it has been less in vogue for some time. In this paper we want to propose-or recall-another way of engaging imaginative work. Understand a work of art, interpreters try to close with a structure of thought that represents its Of ideas, that is, some conceptual form that gets more or less fully articulated "for" the work. These cases, however, an essential relation is preserved between an artistic work and some structure Obscure the long-standing character of such practices, which can be mixed in various ways. Structure of intelligibility at a higher, more critical level. These meanings are sought in different ways: as though resident "in" the work, orĮvoked through "reader-response," or deconstructable through a process that would reinstall a The usual object of interpretation is "meaning," or some set of ideas that can be cast in Interpretive moves, if any are explicitly engaged. Interpretive: bibliographical studies and prosodic analysis, for example, typically discount their We canĭraw an immediate distinction, however, between critical practices which do or do not aim to be Same works-can obscure the theoretical commonality that holds those practices together. The variety of critical practices-indeed, the number of differing interpretations directed at the Works of imagination encourage interpreters, who respond in diverse and inventive ways. Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet I. They always come down to more or less happy misunderstandings. With nothing can one approach a work of art so little as with critical words: Deformance and Interpretation Deformance and Interpretation ![]()
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