Against Theory
Against Theory
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反对理论
DOI：
10.1086/448178
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发表时间：
1982
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影响因子：
1.7
通讯作者：
W. B. Michaels
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作者：
S. Knapp;W. B. Michaels
所谓“理论”，我们指的是文学批评中的一个特殊项目：试图通过诉诸对一般解释的解释来支配对特定文本的解释。该术语有时用于文学学科，与个别作品的解释没有直接关系，如叙事学，文体学和韵律学。然而，尽管这些主题具有普遍性，但在我们看来，它们本质上是经验性的，我们反对理论的论点将不适用于它们。当代理论有两种形式。一些理论家试图将文学文本的阅读建立在旨在保证解释的客观性和有效性的方法之上。另一些人则对这种程序无法在解释者之间达成一致印象深刻，他们将这种失败转化为另一种理论模式，否认正确解释的可能性。我们的目的不是在这两种选择中做出选择，而是要表明
By "theory" we mean a special project in literary criticism: the attempt to govern interpretations of particular texts by appealing to an account of interpretation in general. The term is sometimes applied to literary subjects with no direct bearing on the interpretation of individual works, such as narratology, stylistics, and prosody. Despite their generality, however, these subjects seem to us essentially empirical, and our argument against theory will not apply to them. Contemporary theory has taken two forms. Some theorists have sought to ground the reading of literary texts in methods designed to guarantee the objectivity and validity of interpretations. Others, impressed by the inability of such procedures to produce agreement among interpreters, have translated that failure into an alternative mode of theory that denies the possibility of correct interpretation. Our aim here is not to choose between these two alternatives but rather to show