Validity in Interpretation

Hirsch, E.D. Jr.

ISBN 10: 0300016921 / ISBN 13: 9780300016925

Published by Yale University, Chelsea, MI, 1967

About this Item

Hirsch, E.D. Jr. VALIDITY IN INTERPRETATION Chelsea, Mi: Yale University 1967 NF/NA 287pp. 8vo. Book has a dark green cover with white, light green, and blue lettering. Shows minimal signs of shelf wear and is starting to age tone on the inside and outside of the front and back covers. Spine is creased and bumped along the top and bottom, and is scuffed on the sides. The binding is tight, but the flyleaf is torn out at the back. Book has name of previous owner written on the inside of the front cover, but no other marks throughout. Overall the book has maintained a near fine condition and is in great shape for its age.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Validity in Interpretation
• Publisher: Yale University, Chelsea, MI
• Publication Date: 1967
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0300016921
• ISBN 13: 9780300016925
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: Near Fine

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Synopsis

“Here is a book that brings logic to the most unruly of disciplines, literary interpretation. . . . This study is a necessary took for anyone who wants to talk sense about literature.”—Virginia Quarterly Review

By demonstrating the uniformity and universality of the principles of valid interpretation of verbal texts of any sort, this closely reasoned examination provides a theoretical foundation for a discipline that is fundamental to virtually all humanistic studies. It defines the grounds on which textual interpretation can claim to establish objective knowledge, defends that claim against such skeptical attitudes as historicism and psychologism, and shows that many confusions can be avoided if the distinctions between meaning and significance, interpretation and criticism are correctly understood.   

Review

"Here is a book that brings logic to the most unruly of disciplines, literary interpretation. Viewing this subject within the tradition of hermeneutics, Mr. Hirsch is able to trace its origins and development with brilliant insight. The result is a lucidly systemic and authoritative account of the premises and procedures applicable to the interpretation of a literary text. Mr. Hirsch has performed a monumental service thereby that of reinstating the credentials of objectivism and defining the limits of the aesthetics of truth. This study is a necessary took for anyone who wants to talk sense about literature."—Virginia Quarterly Review