Moscow State Linguistic University, Russia, Moscow
The article traces the evolution of the views of British philologists on the interpretation of the text. While the epoch of the Enlightenment focused on the concept of perspicuity, which presupposed the existence of one possible interpretation of the author’s intention, Romanticism put forward the problem of the recipient’s complex perception of the text. To prove this claim, the author analyses the concept of creative reading by S.T. Coleridge.
hermeneutics; philosophy of language; the Enlightenment; Romanticism; F. Schleiermacher; S.T. Coleridge
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