What Interpretive Divergence Can Teach Literary Semantics:Reconsidering Wordsworth’s ‘A Slumber Did my Spirit Seal’1 | Zendy

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What Interpretive Divergence Can Teach Literary Semantics:Reconsidering Wordsworth’s ‘A Slumber Did my Spirit Seal’<sup>1</sup>

Author(s) -

Bo Pettersson

Publication year - 2002

Publication title -

nordic journal of english studies

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.18

H-Index - 8

eISSN - 1654-6970

pISSN - 1502-7694

DOI - 10.35360/njes.113

Subject(s) - divergence (linguistics) , seal (emblem) , linguistics , order (exchange) , field (mathematics) , history , semantics (computer science) , english language , sociology , literature , philosophy , art , computer science , economics , ancient history , mathematics , finance , pure mathematics , programming language

This paper aims by way of a test case to show how literary studies in general and literary semantics in particular could broaden its scope by embracing a holistic view of literary communication that seeks to take into account its intentional, textual and interpretive aspects. In a sense, it is a companion piece to my 'multidimensional' re-readings of Huckleberry Finn and Frank Norris's The Octopus and their criticism on the basis of a tentative pragmatics of literary interpretation (see Pettersson 1999a, Pettersson 2002: 244-247 and Pettersson 1999b).

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