lecture delivered at Rose Mary College

1. HERMENUTIC
PROTOCOLS
AND
EQUIVOCAL TEXTS

2. • I saw a man on a hill with a telescope.
• A mother beats up her daughter because she was
drunk

3. “I am Pregnant”

4. PRAGMATICS

5. • Close Reading
• Psychoanalytical Reading
• Epistemological Reading

6. TEXTUAL ANALYSIS
• Language is deceptive
• Irony
• Ambiguity
• Allegory
• Symbolism
• Allusion / intertextuality
• metaphor
• metonymy
• synecdoche

7. • (1) Sense
• (2) Feeling
• (3) Tone
• (4) Intention –politician, ad, persuasion
• Intentional fallacy

8. PSYCHOANALYTIC
SIGMUND FREUD

9. HUMAN PSYCHE

10. DEFENCE MECHANISM

11. Repression

12. Interpretations of Dreams
• Manifest (indirect) vs. Latent Content (inner meaning)
• Displacement
• Condensation
• Sublimation

13. FREUDIAN SLIP
Slip of the
tongue
Slip of the pen

14. Fantasy

15. Freud AND Rainer Maria Rilke

16. HISTORICIST/CULTURAL READING
• LITERARY TEXT + NON LITERARY TEXT
• Historicity of the text
• Fairy Queen by Spenser, Shakespeare, Rhymes,
• Episteme/SOCIAL ENERGY

18. Hidden Ideology of Society
• Mervyn Morris’ “Judas”
• Bapsi Sidwa “Ice candy man”
• Christopher Marlowe : Dr. Faustus
• Hermann Hesse : Siddhartha.

19. Resistant Reader

20. INTERPRETIVE COMMUNITY
• “Every Reading is misreading”
• “LAMB” AND “TYGER”
• Little Lamb who made thee
• Dost thou know who made
thee
• Gave thee life & bid thee feed.
• By the stream & o'er the mead;
• Gave thee clothing of delight,
• Softest clothing wooly bright;
• And what shoulder, & what art,
• Could twist the sinews of thy
heart?
• Did he smile his work to see?
• Did he who made the Lamb make
thee?

21. Always look for something…
• ‘Behind’ the words
• ‘Between’ the lines
• ‘Beyond’ the text