World-Making : The Literary Truth-Claim and the Interpretation of Texts /

In literary texts writers express their views on a great variety of issues, some of which they take seriously, others of which they treat with levity. Even in those statements to which cultural circumstances assign a transcendent meaning there is a wide range of commitment from marginal to central c...

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Main Author: Valdes, Mario (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
Corporate Author: De Gruyter
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Toronto : University of Toronto Press, [2019]
Series:Heritage
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505 0 0 |t Frontmatter --   |t Contents --   |t Preface --   |t Chapter one. A Phenomenological Approach to the Aporia of Truth in Literature --   |t Chapter two. The Truth-Claim and Literature --   |t Chapter three. The Analysis of the Truth-Claim in Literary Discourse --   |t Chapter four. The Textual Function of Truth-Claims: Jacob's Room, Death of a Salesman, and 'Prose of Death's Head' --   |t Chapter five. The Historical Study of Truth-Claims --   |t Chapter six. The Phenomenology of the Truth-Claim --   |t Notes --   |t Index --   |t Theory /Culture Series 
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520 |a In literary texts writers express their views on a great variety of issues, some of which they take seriously, others of which they treat with levity. Even in those statements to which cultural circumstances assign a transcendent meaning there is a wide range of commitment from marginal to central concern in the discursive context. Mario J. Valdés calls these assertions truth-claims. Drawing on the works of a wide range of authors, including Proust, Tolstoy, Woolf, Lorca, Solzhenitsyn, and Fowles, Valdés explores the phenomenon of truth-claims from two perspectives. One, textual semantics, deal with the content of a given truth-claim; the other, hermeneutics, is concerned with the reader's interpretation of the truth-claim. In the reading of the text the subject making the truth-claim is not the author or a collective abstraction but rather an enunciating voice or voices. The subject enacting the truth-claim is the reader in his or her textual encounter with the discourse. Everything that happens in a text is recognizable and ultimately knowable because it is made possible as a world constituted through language by a reader. The subject-matter of truth-claims is therefore not the physical data of the world that corresponds to the statement, but rather the reader's accessibility and relationship to those data within the lived world of language 
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