This document provides an overview of hermeneutics of suspicion, which involves critically analyzing texts to uncover deeper or hidden meanings beyond the literal meaning. It discusses techniques for psychoanalytic, cultural, and ideological readings of texts by examining factors like language use, symbolism, author's intentions, historical context, and interpreting dreams. The goal is to look "behind the words," "between the lines," and "beyond the text" to question surface level meanings and interpretations.
16. HISTORICIST/CULTURAL READING
LITERARY TEXT + NON LITERARY TEXT
Historicity of the text
Fairy Queen by Spenser, Shakespeare, Rhymes,
Episteme/SOCIAL ENERGY
18. 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?
19. Always look for something
Behind the words
Between the lines
Beyond the text