This document provides an overview of hermeneutic protocols and approaches to analyzing equivocal texts. It discusses close reading techniques including psychoanalytical, epistemological, and cultural/historicist readings. It also covers textual analysis approaches such as identifying irony, ambiguity, symbolism and other literary devices. Additionally, it introduces psychoanalytic concepts from Sigmund Freud like the psyche, defense mechanisms, repression, and dream interpretation. Lastly, it discusses the idea of interpretive communities and resistant readers.

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