{"id":405,"date":"2012-06-27T05:36:46","date_gmt":"2012-06-27T05:36:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ijaps.usm.my\/?page_id=405"},"modified":"2020-04-19T19:19:15","modified_gmt":"2020-04-19T11:19:15","slug":"interpretation-the-infinite-controversy-sabbar-s-sultan","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/ijaps.usm.my\/?page_id=405","title":{"rendered":"Interpretation: The Infinite Controversy, by Sabbar S. Sultan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Vol. 6, No. 1 (2010): 25\u201345.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Abstract<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The following is an attempt to view and perceive the problematic act of\u00a0interpretation, including its nature, its endless controversies, its horizons and its\u00a0limitations. The paper is comprised of two sections. The first is an introduction\u00a0covering the various aspects of the interpretive act. It also deals with the vast\u00a0potentialities opened up by interpretation. The second section shows some of the\u00a0limitations of interpretation, as seen in the different interpretations of Conrad&#8217;s\u00a0Heart of Darkness and Shakespeare&#8217;s Hamlet. The approach used throughout is\u00a0ambivalent in that it stresses the merits and drawbacks of interpretation in reading\u00a0and understanding texts.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Author&#8217;s bio<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Sabbar S. Sultan is associate professor of modern English literature at Al Isra University, Amman, Jordan. His latest publications include \u201cThe Critical vs. the Industrial in David Lodge\u2019s Nice Work\u201d, International Journal of Arabic and English Studies, Lebanon, (Oct., 2009) (forthcoming); \u201cThe Artist-Community Relationship in Hawthorne\u2019s Story \u2018The Artist of the Beautiful\u2019,\u201d Journal of the Society of Faculties of Arts in the Arab World, University of Yarmouk, Irbid, Jordan (Feb. 2010) (forthcoming); \u201cThe Sciences-Humanities Controversy Revisited\u201d, International Journal of Asia Pacific Studies (www.usm.my\/ijaps\/) 4, 2 (Nov. 2008): 1\u201338; \u201cThe Poetic Space of Robert Frost and Mahmoud Al Breikan\u201d, Journal of the Society of Faculties of Arts in the Arab World, Yarmouk University, 5, 2 (2008): 27\u201357; and, \u201cSilence and its Discontents in Literature\u201d, Dirasat, University of Jordan, Amman, 4 (Dec. 2007): 680\u2013696.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Download\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Interpretation: The Infinite Controversy, by Sabbar S. 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