A strikingly original work, Friends of Interpretable Objects re-anchors aesthetics in the object of attention even as it redefines the practice, processes, meaning, and uses of interpretation.
Miguel Tamen's concern is to show how inanimate objects take on life through their interpretation--notably, in our own culture, as they are collected and housed in museums. It is his claim that an object becomes interpretable only in the context of a "society of friends." Thus, Tamen suggests, our inveterate tendency as human beings to interpret the phenomenal world gives objects not...
A strikingly original work, Friends of Interpretable Objects re-anchors aesthetics in the object of attention even as it redefines the pract...
This book questions the presupposition that -interpretation- is the basic problem of language and examines how assumptions about the constructed nature of the object of interpretation affect current discussions about interpretation in the humanities. The author is not taken by the universalizing claims of hermeneutics that everything is reducible to interpretation, but he is not interested in quarreling directly with those claims either. And with respect to the notion of invention--that things don't simply exist but are produced, made up--he likewise is interested neither in the objections...
This book questions the presupposition that -interpretation- is the basic problem of language and examines how assumptions about the constructed natur...
This collection of essays traces the history of Portugese literature from the medieval period to the present. The volume serves as a comprehensive introduction to Portugese literature to students new to the field and provides insight into the ongoing controversies on the subject.
This collection of essays traces the history of Portugese literature from the medieval period to the present. The volume serves as a comprehensive int...
