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Hermeneutic Vs Rhetorical Reading

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Moreover, the critic wants to highlight a distinction between the types of interpretations of the story which can be called, the “hermeneutic” approach and the “rhetorical reading.” On the one hand, the hermeneutic interpretation “is guaranteed by the reference of the words to something distinct from them, (…). The “something different” may be the life of the author, or historical facts, (…), or some external code of interpretation” (144). On the other hand, the rhetorical reading “starts with the words and stays with them” (144). It supposes that is generated by the words alone rather than anything external to which they refer. Thus, the hermeneutic interpretation suggests that the meaning is “a preexisting secret outside the words of the
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