This paper is a critical examination of two antithetical theories on the role of authorial intention in the criticism and interpretation of literature: the New Critics' "intentional fallacy" and E. D. Hirsch's historicist objectivism. A third way is put forward: a regulative objectivism which emerges as a a result of critical debate.
Authorial Intention in Literary Hermeneutics:
On Two American Theories
https://papers.ssrn.com/abstract=1737206
Date posted: January 09, 2011
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Keywords: Interpretation, Hermeneutics, Criticism, Intention, Literary criticism, Intentionality, Authorship, Meaning
Suggested Citation:
http://www.miscelaneajournal.net/index.php/misc/article/view/465
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http://www.miscelaneajournal.net/index.php/misc/article/view/465/219
2018
A somewhat garbled AI podcast on this paper can be found here:
_____. "Authorial Intention in Literary Hermeneutics: On Two American Theories." AI podcast on José Angel García Landa's paper. Academia 15 March 2026.* (Somewhat garbled).
https://www.academia.edu/405995/
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