Author: Bruns, Gerald L.
Title: Inventions. Writing, Textuality, and Understanding in Literary History
Description: New Haven, Yale University Press, (1982). orig.cloth. 24x16cm, xiv, 201 pp. Page edges spotted, minor rubbing, VG. dustwrapper ¶ Contents: Introduction: Criticism as Invention; Writing & Interpretation among the Ancients: Secrecy & Understanding; The Originality of Texts in a Manuscript Culture; Method & System among the Moderns; A Grammarian's Guide to the 'Discourse on Method'; Systems versus Tongues; or, the New Rhetoric versus the Old; Romantic Hermeneutics: The Interpretation of Character in Jane Austen; Energy & Interpretation in Hopkins; Modernist Textuality: De Improvisatione: An Essay on 'Kora in Hell'; Error & Figure in 'Ulysses'; Conclusion: Representation & Understanding.

Keywords: Critical Theory, Literary Criticism, Hermeneutics, , , , , ,