Intention and Text

Kaye Mitchell is Lecturer in Contemporary Literature in the Centre for New Writing at the University of Manchester, UK. She is the author of A. L Kennedy (Palgrave 2007).

• Acknowledgements; Preface: Intentions; Introduction: Beginnings: The Birth of a Fallacy; 1. 'The Soul of Speech': E.D.Hirsch & the Ethics of Authorial Intentionalism; 2. Intention, Illocution, Mimesis; 3. Reader's Intention: Intentionality & Concretisation; 4. Intention After the Subject; Conclusion: The Ethics & Pragmatics of Intentionality; Bibliography; Index.

"This original, lucid and rigorous book provides an authoritative investigation and critique of analytic, continental and literary critical and theoretical positions on intention. The best book in recent years on the subject, it makes an important and innovative argument about intention and deserves to be read by anyone with an interest in these debates." - Robert Eaglestone, Professor of Contemporary Literature and Thought at Royal Holloway, University of London, UK