隐微理论与作者意图批评理论

列奥·施特劳斯的"隐微理论"同时也是一种特殊形态的作者意图批评理论,因而似乎为后者提供了有力的理论支持.然而,因其本身的哲学立场,它对作者意图论必须回答的两个基本问题即作者意图的问题及读者全知视角的问题,不仅不能有所助益,反而必须以牺牲该理论的一些基本原则为代价.其实,隐微理论对文学技巧的特殊解释亦使作者意图趋于消解.据此可知作者意图论不能因隐微理论的介入而前进一步,它所面临的理论难题仍然悬而未决.

Esotericism and Authorial Intention Criticism

Leo Strauss's esotericism,a special form of authorial intention criticism,has been regarded by some as supplying decisive support for this theory.Yet analysis reveals that,owing to its own philosophical stance,esotericism does not help in solving the two basic issues of authorial intention criticism,i.e.,the identification of meaning with author's intention and the reader's meta-perspective.Instead,it distorts some of the basic assumptions of authorial intention criticism or even pushes them to the point of...