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- Title: Dissenting Textualism: The Claims of Psychological Method in the Long Romantic Period.
- Author : Studies in Romanticism
- Release Date : January 22, 2010
- Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines,Books,Professional & Technical,Education,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 234 KB
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WHEN FRANK KERMODE PUBLISHED THE GENESIS OF SECRECY: ON THE Interpretation of Narrative in 1979, he presented his analysis of the first four books of the New Testament, the Gospels of Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John, as an exercise in Biblical hermeneutics. At the same time, he was at pains to describe his interpretation of Biblical as unmotivated by personal faith in the religion that the texts represented. (1) He took the Gospels seriously, as worthy of interpretative attention, and, simultaneously, depicted them as literature, as texts that might profitably be read with what Coleridge called that "willing suspension of disbelief for the moment which constitutes poetic faith." (2) In the course of his attentive reading, Kermode developed an account of intercalated episodes in Mark and weighed the relative claims of historicity (as reference to actuality) and of" story as such (as making minimal referential claims in its attention to its internal connections). At the same time, however, he eventually reencountered the very problem that he had seemed to sidestep in announcing his own detachment from the beliefs that the Gospel texts had been designed to register. The Biblical text as he saw it continually presented a tension between latent and manifest meaning, in which the apostles (sometimes) appeared to understand what Christ really meant while other auditors interpreted them in variously obtuse, malign, or disastrous ways. In singling out various passages that revolve around the difference between having and lacking ears to hear, Kermode developed an important Biblical theme and, simultaneously, transferred the problematic to the interpretation of texts that, in seeming to have no claims on our belief about the state of things in the actual world, had sometimes appeared to offer a way of muting the question of the relation between a reader's personal belief and his ability to understand particular texts. Literature, in the line of thought that Coleridge had made available to Kermode and many others, was a domain in which shared beliefs were unnecessary for interpretative authority--by contrast with the religious canon considered as a body of religious scripture.