文档介绍：HERMENEUTICS•IN•RUSSIA VOLUME•2•1998
© Imaeva Z. (Ufa)
IMPLIED MEANINGS IN S STORIES AND INVERTING
Inverting was first studied by Hegel, in his Phenomenology of the Spirit Hegel argues that in its development, the Spirit
makes a step-by-step ascention, evolving from the lower to higher forms. Inverting is one of the phases in its
phenomenological development. This phase heralds a new form in the life of Man It is the acme, the culminaing point the
Spirit can attain. Hegel regards inverting as a hallmark of the Spirit, rather than Man and the internal energy of his mind and
soul.
In Humboldts works inverting is associated with a possibility of change in language as with the development of ideas, an
increased capacity for thinking and a much deeper rating power of perception, Time brings into Language something
it never possessed previously. The same integument passes another sense, the same die and mold turn out something
else and then, in keeping with the same laws bination, transpires a flow of ideas but segmented somehow dif ferently.
[Humboldt, 1936, p. 100].
Inverting should not be confused with the trope which belongs to literary style and has pleted figurativeness of
meaning. At its initial stage inverting may be defined as a unity of several meanings that can be inferred from the same text.
At present, problems posed by inverting and its history remain quite topical. Under the impact of an historical epoch
inverting alters its structure.
While reading a text, the reader is often confronted with a situation, when he transcends the boundary of his experience and
enters a totally new realm of knowledge. However, in such cases the situation is seen from the individuals own point of
view, or, rather his worldview. A new meaning may be created by transferring a characteristic of one phenomenon to another.
In Sister Carrie Dreiser describes his heroine against the backdrop of a new day thus accentuating the fact that a vista of
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