Comparative Criticism: Volume 5, Hermeneutic Criticism

Addresses literary theory and criticism, comparative studies in terms of theme, genre movement and influence, and interdisciplinary perspectives.

E. S. Shaffer (Edited by)

9780521248600, Cambridge University Press

Hardback, published 17 April 1986

396 pages
23.7 x 16 x 2.9 cm, 0.746 kg

Comparative Criticism is an annual journal of comparative literature and cultural studies that has gained an international reputation since its inception in 1979. It contains major articles on literary theory and criticism; on a wide range of comparative topics; and on interdisciplinary debates. It includes translations of literary, scholarly and critical works; substantial reviews of important books in the field; and bibliographies on specialist themes for the year, on individual writers, and on comparative literary studies in Britain and Ireland.

List of contributors
Acknowledgements
Frontispiece
Editor's introduction: the 'Great Code' deciphered: literary and Biblical hermeneutics
Part I. Hermeneutic Criticism: 1. Reading as experience: on the aesthetics of literary interpretation and criticism Johan Wrede
2. The community of interpretation: T. S. Eliot and Josiah Royce Piers Gray
3. Stanley Fish's interpretive communities and the status of critical interpretations P. D. Juhl
4. 'What matter who's speaking?': Beckett, the authorial subject and contemporary critical theory Iain Wright
5. Reading as system and as practice John Frow
6. Gadamer's hermeneutics Paul Connerton
7. Turner's Biblical Deluge and the iconography of 'homo bulla' Mordechai Omer
8. 'The world's pleasaunce': H?fiz's allegorical gardens Julie Scott Meisami
9. Hölderlin and the interpretation of the self Stanley Corngold
Part II. Translations: 1. Sophocles: Antigone, stasimon V J. Lavery
2. Friedrich Hölderlin: on tragedy: 'Notes on the Oedipus' and 'Notes on the Antigone' translated with an introduction Jeremy Adler
3. Horst Günther: philological understanding: a note on the writings of Peter Szondi Jeremy Adler
4. Peter Szondi: Hölderlin's overcoming of classicism Timothy Bahti
5. The English Comedians: comedy of the prodigal son translated with an introduction Julian Hilton
Part III. Essay Reviews: 1. The case of Kugel: do we find ourselves when we lose ourselves in a text? Francis Landy
2. Family plots: a review of Adultery in the Novel by Tony Tanner, Balzac by Christopher Prendergast, and Origins of the Novel by Marthe Robert Stephen Heath
3. On the men of ancient Greece: a review of Myth, Religion and Society. Structuralist Essays by M. Detienne, L. Gernet, J. -P Vernant and P. Vidal Naquet Riccardo di Donato and Jesper Svenbro (trans.)
Books and periodicals received
Bibliography of hermeneutics: literary and Biblical interpretation Jeffery M. Peck
Bibliography of comparative literature in Britain, 1980 Glyn Tegai Hughes.

Subject Areas: Literary studies: general [DSB]