A History of Ambiguity (original) (raw)

Abstract

Not a history of ambiguous texts per se, but rather a quixotic attempt at a history of the ways that interpreters, and theorists of interpretation, have posited, confronted, denied, conceptualised and argued over the existence of multiple meanings in texts. The major fields discussed in the book are: linguistics (including rhetoric, semantics, poetics), law, theology (or rather the interpretation of Scripture), and literary criticism, although I also take forays into diplomacy, psychology, and other areas. Mostly Western, though there is a touch of mediaeval Sanskrit poetry and poetics, and a sprinkle of mediaeval Arabic semantics. (I do not read Sanskrit or Arabic. Things will work out, somehow.)

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