On Interpretation

Meaning and Inference in Law, Psychoanalysis, and Literature
Erscheinungsjahr 2008
ISBN: 978-0-8203-3190-4
Verlag: University of Georgia Press

Buch, Englisch, 248 Seiten, Paperback, Format (B × H): 154 mm x 230 mm, Gewicht: 452 g

On Interpretation challenges a number of entrenched assumptions about being and knowing that have long kept theorists debating at cross purposes. Patrick Colm Hogan first sets forth a theory of meaning and interpretation and then develops it in the context of the practices and goals of law, psychoanalysis, and literary criticism. In his preface, Hogan discusses developments in semantics and related fields that have occurred over the decade since the book first appeared. Now with a new preface

Autoren/Hrsg.

Hogan, Patrick Colm

Über Autor(innen)

Patrick Colm Hogan is a professor of English at the University of Connecticut specializing in cognitive approaches to literary and critical theory as well as postcolonial and world literature and nonwestern theory. Recent publications include Cognitive Science, Literature, and the Arts: A Guide for Humanists and The Mind and Its Stories: Narrative Universals and Human Emotion. He is editor of the forthcoming Cambridge Encyclopedia of the Language Sciences.