A Theory of Literary Explication : Specifying a Relativistic Foundation in Epistemic Probability, Cognitive Science, and Second-Order Logic
ISBN: 9781443832304
Platform/Publisher: Ebook Central / Cambridge Scholars Publishing
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Subjects: Psychology; Literature;

This book presents current multidisciplinary research and theory from 17 different fields (most of them never before applied to literary explication) in order to provide (1) justification for the practice of a relative-probability type of explication as distinguished from interpretation, (2) a relativistic foundation for the preference of some explication(s) of a literary work over others, and thereby (3) a middle way between the postmodern pluralist view that a work has only an unlimited num...


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