Includes bibliographical references (pages 115-126) and index.
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I. Our hermeneutical inheritance -- The Cartesian and Baconian legacies -- The Cartesian isolation of the aesthetic category -- Baconianism and a new world hermeneutic -- Beyond the first person -- II. Texts and actions -- The limits of the literature-as-language model -- Basic principles of the literature-as-action model -- The question of reference and mimesis -- Imagined and actual worlds -- Some consequences for hermeneutical practice -- Historical texts.
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III. Reader-response hermeneutics, action models, and the parables of Jesus -- Literary theory and biblical hermeneutics -- The parables of Jesus -- Audience criticism and reader-response hermeneutics -- The need for a reader-response approach to the parables -- The problems and inadequacy of a reader-response approach to the parables -- The contribution of the action model: Toward responsible interpretation.