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4 pages in length. Interpretation comes in as many forms as the number of people attempting to construe the meaning of a given concept; to pin a singular approach to or expectation of interpretation is to remove the very personal element inherent to drawing analysis. Kermode's approach addresses the aspects of knowledge and interpretation as they directly relate to the concepts of existence and meaning, a duality whereby the author provides readers with a greater understanding of why interpretation is so elusive and how that ambiguity causes misconception, discord and downright erroneous belief. Bibliography lists 2 sources.
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interpretation is to remove the very personal element inherent to drawing analysis. Kermodes approach addresses the aspects of knowledge and interpretation as they directly relate to the concepts of
existence and meaning, a duality whereby the author provides readers with a greater understanding of why interpretation is so elusive and how that ambiguity causes misconception, discord and downright erroneous
belief. "We glimpse the secrecy through the meshes of the text; this is divination, but what is divined is what is visible from our angle...When we come to relate
[the] part to the whole, the divined glimmer to the fire we suppose to be its source, we see why Hermes is the patron of so many other trades besides
interpretation. There has to be trickery. And we interpret always as transients--of whom he is also patron--both in the book and in the world which resembles the book.
For the world is our beloved codex" (Kermode). In effect, Kermodes insight illustrates how interpretation is an independent agent that lives within each person and is employed as
the individuals perception; since perception is subjective to ones personal point of view, so too is the fundamental composition of literary interpretation. The very nature of perception is that
which we, as humans, have been trained to discern as a species, inasmuch as the certain quality of perception required within the sensual world is decidedly unique to human beings.
Man looks upon his world as a direct reflection of him, his values, beliefs, experiences, conditions and development; contrarily, humanity may also perceive the world "cleanly and directly, seeing
things for what they are in moments of illuminating vision" (On Perception). Either way, mans consciousness, awareness and understanding are what dictate perception, which represents "a choice, where we
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