The Range of Interpretation
- Binding: Hardcover
- Publisher: Columbia Univ Pr
- Publish date: 02/01/2000
For Iser, there are several different genres of interpretation, all of which are acts of translation designed to transpose something into something else. Perhaps the most obvious examples of interpretation involve canonical texts, and here Iser explores, for example, the Rabbinical exegesis of the Torah and Dr. Johnson's reading of Shakespeare. But what happens when the matter that one seeks to interpret consists not of a text but of a welter of fragments, as in the study of history, or is something hidden, as in the practice of psychoanalysis, or is as complex as a culture or a system? In the end, Iser concludes that if interpretation is a form of translation, then it is performative and will always depend on what it seeks to translate rather than on some absolute concept of truth or reality.
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