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Interpretation: The process of educating visitors to national parks and other cultural or historical facilities through the use of signs, markers, etc.

Fourfold Interpretation: In the twelfth century, fourfold interpretation was a model for reading biblical texts according to one of four possible levels of meaning. The idea had a profound influence on exegesis and . . . View Full Definition

Deconstruction: An interpretive movement in literary theory that reached its apex in the 1970s. Deconstruction rejects absolute interpretations, stressing ambiguities and contradictions in literature. Decon . . . View Full Definition

Exegesis: (1) In Roman times, the term exegesis applied to professional government interpretation of omens, dreams, and sacred laws, as Cuddon notes (315). (2) In post-Roman times, more commonly exege . . . View Full Definition

Exegetical Criticism: Another term for Robertsonian criticism of medieval literature. See discussion under fourfold interpretation.

Comedy Of Humors: A Renaissance drama in which numerous characters appear as the embodiment of stereotypical 'types' of people, each character having the physiological and behavioral traits associated with a . . . View Full Definition

Fourfold Meaning: Another term for fourfold interpretation, this word refers to the medieval idea that every passage in the Bible can be interpreted according to at least one of four possible levels of meanin . . . View Full Definition

Authorial Voice: The voices or speakers used by authors when they seemingly speak for themselves in a book. (In poetry, this might be called a poetic speaker). The use of this term makes it clear in critical . . . View Full Definition

Allegory: Henry cockeram, in his english dictionary (1623), explains this as 'a sentence that must be understood otherwise than the literal interpretation shewes' but does not distinguish among allego . . . View Full Definition

Stratigraphy: The science of the description, correlation, and classification of strata in sedimentary rocks, including the interpretation of the depositional environments of those strata.