Medieval Engagement with Authorial Intention

IF 0.4 2区历史学 0 MEDIEVAL & RENAISSANCE STUDIES

JOURNAL OF MEDIEVAL AND EARLY MODERN STUDIES Pub Date : 2023-09-01 DOI:10.1215/10829636-10689645

Robert Pasnau

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Abstract

Abstract The Middle Ages developed a rigorous semantic account of how thought mediates between words and things. Modern literary theory, in contrast, has been characteristically skeptical about whether anything is gained by attempting to discover the thoughts of the author that lie behind the words. For medieval readers, connecting with an author's thoughts mattered, above all, because they understood reading to be a form of interpersonal engagement. The text is not simply an impersonal artifact, good for stimulating certain sorts of responses, but it is an expression of the thoughts of another mind. Ultimately, it is the value of minds connecting with other minds that led medieval readers to care about authorial intention.

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中世纪与作者意图的接触

中世纪发展了一套严谨的语义学理论，描述思想如何在词与物之间进行中介。相比之下，现代文学理论对试图发现隐藏在文字背后的作者思想是否有任何收获持典型的怀疑态度。对于中世纪的读者来说，理解作者的思想至关重要，因为他们认为阅读是一种人际交往的形式。文本不仅仅是一种非个人的人工制品，有利于激发某些类型的反应，但它是另一种思想的表达。最终，正是心灵与他人心灵联系的价值，让中世纪的读者关心作者的意图。

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JOURNAL OF MEDIEVAL AND EARLY MODERN STUDIES MEDIEVAL & RENAISSANCE STUDIES-

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期刊介绍： The Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies publishes articles informed by historical inquiry and alert to issues raised by contemporary theoretical debate. The journal fosters rigorous investigation of historiographical representations of European and western Asian cultural forms from late antiquity to the seventeenth century. Its topics include art, literature, theater, music, philosophy, theology, and history, and it embraces material objects as well as texts; women as well as men; merchants, workers, and audiences as well as patrons; Jews and Muslims as well as Christians.