second year course outlines 2012-2013 - School of Social Sciences ...

WEEK 5: INTERPRETATION
Tutorial Text
Richard Wollheim, “Criticism as Retrieval”, in Neill and Ridley (eds), The Philosophy of
Art: Readings Ancient and Modern, McGraw Hill (1995), pp404-414.
W.K. Wimsatt and M. C. Beardsley, ‘The Intentional Fallacy’ Sewanee Review 54 (1946);
reprinted at http://faculty.smu.edu/nschwart/seminar/Fallacy.htm.
Further Reading
Monroe Beardsley, ‘Intentions and Interpretations: A Fallacy Revived’; reprinted in Lamarque
and Olsen.
Noel Carroll, ‘Interpretation and Intention: The Debate between Hypothetical and Actual
Intentionalism’, Metaphilosophy 31 (2000).
Frank Cioffi, ‘Intention and Interpretation in Criticism’ Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society
64 (1964).
Gergory Currie, ‘Interpretation in Art’, in Levinson (ed.), The Oxford handbook of Aesthetics.
Gregory Currie, ‘Interpretation and Objectivity’, Mind 102 (1993).
Stephen Davies, ‘The Aesthetic Relevance of Authors’ and Painters’ Intentions.’ JAAC 41
(1982).
Sherri Irvin, ‘Authors, Intentions and Literary Meaning’, Philosophy Compass 1 (2006):
http://www3.interscience.wiley.com.resourceproxy.manchester.ac.uk/cgibin/fulltext/118557777
Jerrold Levinson, ‘Hypothetical Intentionalism: Statement, Objections and Replies’, in his
Contemplating Art (O.U.P., 2002).
Jerrold Levinson, ‘Intention and Interpretation in Literature,” in his The Pleasures of
Aesthetics: Philosophical Essays (Cornell U.P., 1996).
Paisley Livingston, ‘Intention in Art’, in Levinson (ed.), The Oxford Handbook of Aesthetics.
Paisley Livingston, ‘Intentionalism in Aesthetics’, New Literary History 29 (1998).
Colin Lyas, .Anything Goes: The Intentional Fallacy Revisited’, BJA 23 (1983).
Alexander Nehemas, The Postulated Author: Critical Monism as Regulative Ideal’, Critical
Inquiry 8 (1981).
Stein Olsen, ‘The “Meaning” of a Literary Work’ in Peter Lamarque and Stein Olsen (eds.),
Aesthetics and the Philosophy of Art: The Analytic Tradition (Blackwell, 2005).
Robert Stecker, ‘Moderate Actual Intentionalism Defended’, Journal of Aesthetics and Art
Criticism 64 (2006).
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