Author: Davis, Walter A.
Title: The Act of Interpretation. A Critique of Literary Reason
Description: Chicago, University of Chicago Press, (1978). orig.cloth. 22x14cm, ix, 194 pp. Minor rubbing, VG. dustwrapper ¶ Contents: The Act of Interpretation: Faulkner's "The Bear" & the Problem of Practical Criticism; The Text, the Disciplines, and the Artistic Agent; Critical Theory & Philosophic Method; The Language of Criticism & the Forms of Poetry; Afterword: Irony & Mimesis in 'The Act of Interpretation'.

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