Sentences with phrase «irony of interpretation»

All too often, however, the irony of interpretation remains unfulfilled.

Hunter speaks of the «irony of meaning,» whereas I prefer to speak of the «irony of interpretation».

If understanding is a closure of meaning that requires the irony of interpretation to develop an openness to textual otherness, the text itself must not be regarded as a shell - like container from which its otherness can be extracted as a «thing».

The dialectical textual reality of written discourse (parole) and linguistic code (langue) engenders the great irony of interpretation.

Not exact matches

Irony challenges heroic and purposive interpretations of the world.

The irony of fundamentalist interpretation of the bible is that the literal statements are considered metaphors and the metaphorical statements are considered facts.

In addition, the literal interpretation of the «joy of life» ignores the irony of Zola's title, since the hero in Joie de Vivre, Pauline, perseveres through great suffering (and little joy) as a kind of Christ - figure, much like the hero in Victor Hugo's Les Misérables, Jean Valjean.

From Lear's interpretation of Socratic irony, we learn that the proper response to the insuperable limits of human knowledge, to the perplexities arising in the midst of what we thought we understood, is wonder.

A steady stream of irony slips in too, the way Cooper plays images off each other always leaves room for interpretation — Rodney taking a beating in a fixed fight, Russell and Red miles away skinning the deer newly brought down.

More crucially, he makes the error of assuming that the perspectives of Poppy and Leigh himself are interchangeable — an interpretation that, in my view, ignores a considerable portion of the film's irony and pathos.

These resources provide opportunities to: - Compare interpretations of act 1 scene 5 - Analyse language, form and structure of two interpretations - Analyse dramatic irony - Practice structuring exam responses - Explore context - Explore how different audience may interpret the scene

The irony of some of the photographic titles — Excess Baggage, Diamonds are Forever — suggests a wry but compassionate interpretation of some of the continent's challenges.

Baldessari is undoubtedly one of the leading figures Conceptual art has seen in the last half of a century — John focuses on the perception and interpretation of visual elements and text, while often employing irony to make playful assertions about how meanings are formed.

He is capable of harmoniously intermingling diverse ideas and cultural phenomena in a very open, inclusive, and seductive way, that leaves room for irony and political commentary while remaining open to interpretation by the viewer.»

The irony is that although he claims to have gotten rid of «back radiation» by coming up with a different interpretation of the terms in the equation governing radiative transfer between two bodies, he has in fact done nothing to change any numerical result using those equations... including all of the numerical results that support the existence of the greenhouse effect!