Eskimo, hippopotamuses and straw men: Tools for rebuilding textual determinacy.

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    • Subject Terms:
      TEXTUAL criticism; READING aids & devices; HERMENEUTICS
    • Abstract:
      Discusses various tools and reading models to stake off limits to textual indeterminacy. Argument that meaning belongs both to the text and its interpreters; Unacceptability of Eskimo reading; Straw man argument; Textual interpretation as a rule-oriented process; Rhetorical hermeneutics; Deconstruction, anti-foundationalism and literary anthropology; `Checking the wrong answer' case study.