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Mike: There are indeed limits to interpretation, from both ends. Qualities of the text place limits on what interpretations are valid. If you get the details of the text wrong, or if your theory has little explanatory power in relation to them, your interpretation fails. But there are a number of successful readings that are equally valid (and not just in the logical sense of that term) for most great artistic texts,,,,I would venture to say that is part of what makes them great. I hve been grappling with this particular problem for two decades now...see my 1986 article in the Journal of Aesthetcs and Art Criticism "A Kuhnian Metatheory for Aesthetics", which focuses on literary interpretation. By the way, thanks for the kind words...your preambles foster a collegial attitude that makes for co-inquiry and not conflict. "For beauty is the beginning of terror we are still able to bear, and why we love it so is because it so serenely disdains to destroy us" Rilke's First Duino Elegy Daniel Shaw website: www.lhup.edu/dshaw ________________________________ * * Film-Philosophy Email Discussion Salon. After hitting 'reply' please always delete the text of the message you are replying to. To leave, send the message: leave film-philosophy to: [log in to unmask] For help email: [log in to unmask], not the salon. **