Orphi And The Shadowpaths

Author : Geoffrey H. Hartman
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ISBN 13 : 9781331733317
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (333 download)

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Download or read book The Unmediated Vision written by Geoffrey H. Hartman and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-18 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Unmediated Vision: An Interpretation of Wordsworth, Hopkins, Rilke, and Valery What is his approach? Whenever a critic of literature is discussed, this question tends to preface all the rest. More than any other it rings in the students ears the first weeks at graduate school. I could not understand it then, and still cannot. Approach? Either one has the truth about a poem or one does not. Approach? Just as a thousand misunderstandings will not alter in the least the possibility of a correct understanding, so a thousand varied approaches cannot negate uniqueness of meaning. Then I began to eat of the tree of knowledge, so that my eyes were multiplied, and where I had seen but a single text I now perceived the formidable legion of variant, if not discordant, interpretations. The philologist and the philosopher, the sociologist, the humanist, the various historians - of ideas, of literature, of politics, and of economics - the psychoanalyst and the empirical psychologist, the theologian and the lay Jewish and Christian critics, the more orthodox and the less orthodox - all had their approach, believed themselves in possession of the truth, demanded a hearing, quarreled suavely or with verbal spittle, and insisted that even when the text did not quite fit, their analysis clarified a truth dimly perceived in the original. Still more evidence came from the history of interpretation itself: inexplicable changes of taste, wilful decontextualizations, sublime absurdities, and finally that cheerful bird of prey the skeptic, with corpses enough, yet attacking both the living and the dead. Having tasted these multiple modes of interpretation, I fell in love with the art of interpreting and could not return to my original state. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works."