caa a22 4500 386376557 CHVBK 20180307112021.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161130e198911 xx s 000 0 eng 10.2307/632037 doi S0075426900012659 pii (NATIONALLICENCE)cambridge-10.2307/632037 Sourvinou-Inwood Christiane Department of Greek University College, London Assumptions and the creation of meaning: reading Sophocles' Antigone [Elektronische Daten] [Christiane Sourvinou-Inwood] The notion that texts are not read neutrally, but through perceptual filters shaped by culturally determined assumptions which determine perception and reaction would, I believe, be accepted—in some form—by most literary critics by now. But the extent and radical nature of the cultural determination of reading and their methodological implications are often not fully realized. For they entail that, if we wish to read a text such as the Antigone as closely as possible to the ways in which its contemporary audience did, we must reconstruct in detail their cultural assumptions, by means of which meaning was created, and try to read through perceptual filters created by those assumptions; otherwise we will inevitably read through our own assumptions by default, and as these are very different from those of the Athenians of the late 440s, they will inevitably produce very different meanings from theirs. Copyright © The Society for the Promotion of Hellenic Studies 1989 The Journal of Hellenic Studies Cambridge University Press 109(1989-11), 134-148 0075-4269 109<134 1989 109 JHS https://doi.org/10.2307/632037 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.2307/632037 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Sourvinou-Inwood Christiane Department of Greek University College, London NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- The Journal of Hellenic Studies Cambridge University Press 109(1989-11), 134-148 0075-4269 109<134 1989 109 JHS CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-cambridge