Presents four theories describing the limits of literary interpretation, challenging "the cancer of uncontrolled interpretation" that diminishes the meaning and

This book brings together some of the most distinguished figures currently at work in philosophy, literary theory and criticism to debate the limits of interpre

Advocates a broad revision of the academic study of literature, proposing an adaptive, text-specific approach and using Anna Karenina to illustrate this method.

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Why do critics feel impelled to unmask and demystify the works that they read? What is the rationale for their conviction that language is always withholding so