Theory of meaning and interpretation
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Science of Interpretation and the Art of Interpretation." MLN
85 (1970): 791–802.
- "The Extensional Fallacy: Comment on Rosemarie Maier." College
English
33 (1971): 343–45.
- Review of Gerald Graff, Poetic Statement and Critical Dogma
(Evanston,
IL, 1970). MLN 86 (1971): 948–51; also 87 (1972): 892–83.
- Review of Monroe Beardsley, The Possibility of Criticism
(Detroit,
1970). Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 30 (1972):
391–94.
- "Three
Kinds of Intention." MLN 87 (1972): 827–51. Abstract.
- "Sermons in Stones" (editorial). Centrum 2 (1974): 79–86.
Abstract.
- "Two Kinds of Intention: Reply to Rosemarie Maier." College
English
34 (1973): 229–30; also 35 (1973): 597.
- "Understanding
Poetic Speech Acts." College English 36
(1975): 632–39.
- Reprinted in Linguistic Perspectives on Literature. Ed.
M. K.
L.
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295–304.
- Reprinted in Linguistics at Work: A Reader of Applications.
Ed.
Dallin D. Oaks. Fort Worth, TX: Harcourt Brace College Publishers,
1997.
526–34.
- "Beyond
a Speech-Act Theory of Literary Discourse" (review essay). MLN
92 (1977): 1081–98.
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and Interpreting as Speech Acts." Journal of
Aesthetics
and Art Criticism 36 (1978): 483–85.
- "Grice's
'Implicature'
and Literary
Interpretation: Background and Preface." Twentieth Annual Meeting,
Midwest Modern Language Association, Minneapolis, Minnesota, 2–4
November
1978.
- Review of Gerald Graff, Literature Against Itself: Literary
Ideas
in
Modern Society (Chicago, 1979). Commonweal 12 Sept. 1980:
508–10.
- Review
of What Is Literature?, ed. Paul Hernadi (Bloomington,
IN,
1978). Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 38 (1980):
468–70.
- "Humpty
Dumpty and Verbal Meaning." Journal of Aesthetics and
Art Criticism
40 (1981): 49-58. Abstract.
- "What Kind of Speech Act is Interpretation?" Poetics 10
(1981):
263–82. Abstract.
- "Dead Letters: Wills and Poems." Texas Law Review 60
(1982):
507–25. Abstract.
- Reprinted in Interpreting Law and Literature: A Hermeneutic
Reader.
Ed. Sanford Levinson and Steven Mailloux. Evanston, IL: Northwestern
University
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- "Pragmatics in Wonderland." Rhetoric, Literature, and
Interpretation.
Ed. Harry R. Garvin and Steven Mailloux. Bucknell Review 28:2.
Lewisburg:
Bucknell University Press, 1983. 165–84. Abstract.
- Review of J. Hillis Miller, The Linguistic Moment: From
Wordsworth
to
Stevens (Princeton, NJ, 1985). Wordsworth Circle 17 (1986):
199–200.
- "Bagpipe and Distaff: Interpreting Dictionary Illustrations." Dictionaries:
Journal of the Dictionary Society of North America 10 (1988):
93–109.
- "Performative Utterance, the Word of God, and the Death of the
Author." Semeia 41 (1988): 27–40. Abstract.
- "Billy Budd: Famous Last Words." University of
Cincinnati
Law Review 58 (1990): 989–1001. Abstract.
- Review of Annette Barnes, On Interpretation: A Critical
Analysis
(Oxford, 1988); Canadian Philosophical Reviews 10 (1990): 93–95.
- "The Law of Signatures." Law and Aesthetics. Ed. Roberta
Kevelson.
New Studies in Aesthetics 11. New York: Lang, 1992. 227–43. Abstract.
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