What Is a Text? Explanation and Understanding

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS ix
4. INTRODUCTION: Paul Ricoeur's Post-Structuralist Hermeneutics 1
5. I / Philosophical Context for a Post-Structuralist Hermeneutics
6. What Is a Text? Explanation and Understanding 43
7. Word, Polysemy, Metaphor: Creativity in Language 65
8. Appropriation 86
9. The Human Experience of Time and Narrative 99
10. The Function of Fiction in Shaping Reality 117
11. Mimesis and Representation 137
12. II / The Dialectic of Engagement
13. Habermas 159
14. Geertz 182
15. Construing and Constructing: A Review of The Aims of Interpretation 195
16. Review of Nelson Goodman's Ways of Worldmaking 200
17. The Conflict of Interpretations: Debate with Hans-Georg Gadamer 216
18. Northrop Frye's Anatomy of Criticism, or the Order of Paradigms 242
19. Greimas's Narrative Grammar 256
20. On Narrativity: Debate with A.J. Greimas 287
21. III / Aspects of Post-Structuralist Hermeneutics
22. Metaphor and the Main Problem of Hermeneutics 303
23. Writing as a Problem for Literary Criticism and Philosophical Hermeneutics 320
24. Narrated Time 338
25. Time Traversed: Remembrance of Things Past 355
26. Between the Text and Its Readers 390
27. Life: A Story in Search of a Narrator 425
28. IV/ The Dialogical Disclosure: Interviews with Paul Ricoeur
29. Phenomenology and Theory of Literature 441
30. Poetry and Possibility 448
31. The Creativity of Language 463
32. Myth as the Bearer of Possible Worlds 482
33. World of the Text, World of the Reader 491
34. PAUL RICOEUR'S WORK IN ENGLISH 499
35. INDEX 505