Types of Interpretation in the Aesthetic Disciplines

193 Pages·2003·9.55 MB·English

by  Staffan Carlshamre

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TYPES OF INTERPRETATION
IN THE AESTHETIC DISCIPLINES
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Types of Interpretation
in the Aesthetic Disciplines
Edited by
Staffan Carlshamre
and Anders Pettersson
McGill-Queen’s University Press
Montreal & Kingston London Ithaca
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© McGill-Queen’s University Press 2003
isbn 0-7735-2528-9 (cloth)
isbn 0-7735-2571-8 (paper)
Legal deposit second quarter 2003
Bibliothèque nationale du Québec
Printed in Canada on acid-free paper.
This book has been published with the help of a grant from the
Bank of Sweden Tercentenary Foundation.
McGill-Queen’s University Press acknowledges the support of the
Canada Council for the Arts for our publishing program. We also
acknowledge the financial support of the Government of Canada
through the Book Publishing Industry Development Program (bpidp)
for our publishing activities.
National Library of Canada Cataloguing in Publication
Types of interpretation in the aesthetic disciplines / edited by
Staffan Carlshamre and Anders Pettersson.
Includes index.
isbn 0-7735-2528-9 (bound). – isbn 0-7735-2571-8 (pbk.)
1. Criticism. 2. Interpretation (Philosophy) I. Carlshamre, Staffan
II. Pettersson, Anders, 1946-
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Contents
Acknowledgments vii
Introduction:
The Multiplicity of Interpretation and the
Present Collection of Essays 3
ANDERS PETTERSSON
1 What Is an Interpretation? 30
TORSTEN PETTERSSON
2 Five Kinds of Literary
and Artistic Interpretation 52
ANDERS PETTERSSON
3 The Tree of Interpretation 82
GÖRAN ROSSHOLM
4 Types of Types of Interpretation 112
STAFFAN CARLSHAMRE
5 Interpreting Visual Art:
Performance and Articulation 138
MARGARETHA ROSSHOLM LAGERLÖF
6 Some Metareflections 165
STAFFAN CARLSHAMRE
Index 181
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Acknowledgments
The work on this anthology was carried out within the framework of
the Stockholm-based interdisciplinary research project “Meaning and
Interpretation” (“Mening och tolkning”), led by Professor Dag Praw-
itz and sponsored by the Bank of Sweden Tercentenary Foundation.
This economic backing made it possible for the contributors to meet
repeatedly over several years and also to discuss the material, or por-
tions of it, with larger groups of scholars. In addition, the Tercente-
nary Foundation financed some of our research and supplied us with
a publication grant. We are deeply grateful for this generous support.
In April 1999, we discussed a draft of the anthology with two exter-
nal specialists, Jørgen Dines Johansen and Paisley Livingston, at a
two-day seminar in Stockholm. Their detailed comments and criti-
cism influenced the final version of the manuscripts in important re-
spects. We would like to express our gratitude to both of them for
their perception and helpfulness.
Sven-Åke Heed, Hans Ruin, Lars-Åke Skalin, and Göran Sonesson
took part in the discussions in the anthology group and continuously
shared their insights with us. We thank them cordially.
We would also like to say a warm thank you to Pat Shrimpton, who
checked our English most expertly.
Penn State University Press has kindly granted permission to re-
print three paragraphs from Torsten Pettersson’s essay “The Literary
Work as a Pliable Entity: Combining Realism and Pluralism,” in Is
There a Single Right Interpretation? ed. Michael Krausz (2002).
Stockholm and Umeå June 2001
Staffan Carlshamre
Anders Pettersson
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TYPES OF INTERPRETATION
IN THE AESTHETIC DISCIPLINES
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