Meaning, Intention and the Written Text

1) there is one proper task for the literary critic-to make clear the artistic purposes which grow out of literal meaning (p. ix); 2) there is one correct method to perform such a task-to recover the author's intentions by referring what was said to the living or once-living system of human relationships in which it had its function (p. 250); 3) there is one correct way to view Don Quixote-to accept Cervantes stated intentions and to understand the novel the way that XVIIth and XVIIIth century readers understood it

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