Authors' intentions, literary interpretation, and literary value

Authors :: Davies, Stephen
Source :: The British Journal of Aesthetics. July, 2006, Vol. 46 Issue 3, p223, 25 p.
Publication Year :: 2006
Abstract: Three theories, actual intentionalism, hypothetical intentionalism and the value-maximizing theory are discussed regarding the interpretations of fictional literature. An argument is presented that hypothetical intentionalism either reduces to the value-maximizing theory or it mistakenly attributes to hypothesized intentions the kind of force that attaches only to actual intentions.