Thanks so much to GeoffB, who was able to locate the .pdf of some of my old course notes, which — as background for my students — dealt with many of the issues of interpretation that we’ve been discussing here (and elsewhere) over the past few days. Many of the following observations on meaning and hermeneutics were made by Walter Benn Michaels and augmented by me for my own pedagogical

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