Contents
Preface
Introduction
1. In Defense of the Author / E.D. Hirsch, Jr.
2. The Authority of the Text / Monroe C. Beardsley
3. Robust Relativism / Joseph Margolis
4. The Impossibility of Intentionless Meaning / Steven Knapp and Walter Benn Michaels
5. Interpretation, Intention, and Truth / Richard Shusterman
6. An Intentional Demonstration? / Gary Iseminger
7. Art, Intention, and Conversation / Noël Carroll
8. Wittgensteinian Intentions / Colin Lyas
9. Intention and Interpretation: Hirsch and Margolis / Michael Krausz
10. Interpreting with Pragmatist Intentions / Richard Shusterman
11. Irony, Metaphor, and the Problem of Intention / Daniel O. Nathan
12. Allusions and Intentions / Göran Hermerén
13. Intention and Interpretation: A Last Look / Jerrold Levinson
Bibliography
Notes on Contributors
Index of Names