Keywords
aporia of interpretation
intention
historicalness
politicalness
interdisciplinarity
How to Cite
Abstract
The text written by Stanley Fish, which is an excerpt from his book Professional Correctness. Literary Studies and Political Change (Oxford 1995), is an attempt at a presentation and a discussion of the main conditioning factors and the aporia of interpretation. From among the four arguments given by the author, i.e. intention, historicalness, politicalness and interdisciplinarity, only the first one has been established to be an immanent feature of each of interpretations. This results from the conviction that while interpreting literary texts we are always subjected to the pressure of the surrounding premises. It is just the extensive and thorough analysis of these premises, to which the supporters of political, historical and interdisciplinary criticism refer to that makes the author of the sketch possible to show that behind each of the methods there are individual interests and a different vision of the world. To realize these determinants is to enable us to question the very need of universal interpretation. By questioning the theoretical fundamentals of the three mentioned modes of interpretation, the author admits frankly that the work of an interpreter can have both historical, political and just as well interdisciplinary character, though this observation is by all means tantamount to a recognition of the legitimacy of any of the criticized methods.
Funding
Stanisław Wójtowicz - tłumaczenie (IFP UAM)
References
Agger B., The Decline of Discourse, New York 1990.
Bristol M., Lenten Butchery: Legitimation Crisis in „Coriolanus”, w: Shakespeare Reproduced, . The Text in History and Ideology, red. J. Howard, M. O’Connor, New York 1987.
Brooks C., Marvell’s „Horatian Ode”, w: Seventeenth Century Poetry, red. W.R. Keast, London 1962.
Dollimore J., Radical Tragedy, New York 1989.
Fish S., Professional Correctness. Literary Studies and Political Change, Oxford 1995.
Hogan P., The Politics of Interpretation, New York 1990.
Klein J., Interdisciplinarity, Detroit 1989.
Montrose L.A., Professing the Renaissance, w: The New Hitoricism, red. H. Aram Veeser, New York 1989.
Wayne D., Power, Politics, and the Shakespearean Text, w: Shakespeare Reproduced. The Text in History and Ideology, red. J. Howard, M. O’Connor, New York 1987.
License
Authors
Authors of texts accepted for publication in „Poznańskie Studia Polonistyczne. Seria Literacka” are required to complete, sign and return to the editor's office the Agreement for granting a royalty-free license to works with a commitment to grant a CC sub-license.
Under the agreement, the authors of texts published in „Poznańskie Studia Polonistyczne. Seria Literacka” grant the Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań a non-exclusive, royalty-free license and authorize the use of Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-ND 4.0)Creative Commons sub-license.
The authors retain the right to continue the free disposal of the work.
Users
Interested Internet users are entitled to use works published in „Poznańskie Studia Polonistyczne. Seria Literacka” since 2016, for non-commercial purposes only, under the following conditions:
- attribution - obligation to provide, together with the distributed work, information about the authorship, title, source (link to the original work, DOI) and the license itself.
- no derivatives - the work must be preserved in its original form, without the author's consent it is not possible to distribute the modified work, such as translations, publications, etc.
Copyrights are reserved for all texts published before 2016.
Miscellaneous
Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań retains the right to magazines as a whole (layout, graphic form, title, cover design, logo etc.).