Intentions

Intentions: Negotiated, Contested, And Ignored, Volume 1, provides a rigorous philosophical investigation into the complex relationship between authorial and audience intentions. Arabella Lyon examines how these interactions shape the negotiation of meaning within various rhetorical situations. This scholarly work challenges established literary and rhetorical perspectives by addressing how audiences interpret texts when faced with undecipherable writer intentions. The text explores the scope of understanding and the communicative problems created by differing viewpoints.

As a significant contribution to literature, philosophy, and theory, this volume utilizes Kenneth Burke's concepts of form, motive, and purpose to build a new framework for intentionality. Lyon analyzes the rhetorics of I. A. Richards, Wayne Booth, and Stanley Fish alongside the hermeneutics of Hans-Georg Gadamer to demonstrate where existing theories fall short. This academic study integrates political science and interpretation to construct a postmodern rhetoric that renovates central concepts like deliberation and judgment.