"This fine volume of essays makes significant contributions to our understanding of the idea of interpretation. In particular, important insights are provided into the problem of defining interpretation, different sorts of interpretations that may be distinguished from each other, and, indeed, different kinds of possible taxonomies of interpretations. The papers are very well written, carefully argued, and sustained by consistent reference to specific examples. Nowhere has the idea of interpretation been pursued in such a thorough and creative manner." Paisley Livingston, author of Literature and Rationality: Ideas of Agency in Theory and Fiction