Hermeneutic Desire+critical Rewriting

Starting from a comprehensive examination of current poststructuralist and sociosemiotic theories of narrative, this book formulates an interactive model of literary interpretation and pedagogy emphasising process, critical self-awareness and strategies of rereading/rewriting. A literary pedagogy premised on the concept of 'rewriting', the author argues, will enable readers to experience the process of narrative and critical construction creatively.

Autorentext

MARCEL CORNIS-POPE

Inhalt
Acknowledgements - An Open-Ended Critical Dialectic: Narrative Figuration, Hermeneutic Desire, Interpretive Plots - The Figures Readers Make: Interpretive Plots in Reader-Oriented Criticism - The Figure of Catachresis and the Plot of Unreadability in Deconstruction - Difficult Figuration: Feminine Signifiers in Male Texts - Figures of Exchange: A Poststructuralist Semiotics of Reading - 'Limp' vs 'Acute' Criticism: An Interpretive Community Refigures James - Stringing 'The Figure in the Carpet': Seven Readings, Seven Critical Plots - Rereading, Rewriting, Revisioning: Poststructuralist Interpretation and Literary Pedagogy - Notes and References - Index