Publication Date

Fall 1984

Journal

Mississippi College Law Review

Abstract

The article explores the dynamic interplay between the text and its interpreter within legal and literary hermeneutics, emphasizing the balance between the text's inherent qualities and the reader's contextual influences. It mediates between Fish's emphasis on professional context guiding interpretation and Fiss's advocacy for objective textual constraints, while highlighting White's view that judicial opinions should be complex and poetic, integrating cultural context.

Volume

5

Issue

1

First Page

57

Last Page

62

Publisher

Mississippi College School of Law

Disciplines

Judges | Jurisprudence | Law

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