Intention plays a complex role in human utterances. The interpretation of literary texts is a strong case in point: for about two hundred years there have been

Should we take the author's intention into account when interpreting literature? The question has been a subject of fierce debate since the 1940s that shows no

Intention is one of the masterworks of twentieth-century philosophy in English. First published in 1957, it has acquired the status of a modern philosophical cl

This accessible, personal, and provocative study returns to the major subject in literary discussion before and during the relatively recent flourishing of lite

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