Packet 1: Tossup 7

Specific word or word forms required. A two-word term that uses this action as an adjective first appeared in an essay on problems in Milton scholarship left unresolved by the Variorum Commentary. E. D. Hirsch promoted an “objective” form of this action against a relativism he called “cognitive atheism” in books titled for Validity in and The Aims of this action. In adjectival form, this action describes Stanley Fish’s “communities” (-5[1])of readers. (10[1]-5[1])An essay that calls this action “the revenge of the intellect upon art” claims that what matters about Last Year at Marienbad (10[1])is “the (10[1])sensuous (10[1])immediacy of some of its images.” (10[1])The declaration “In place of hermeneutics we need an erotics of art” ends that essay opposing this action, (10[1]-5[1])which titles a (10[2])collection (10[2])that (10[1])also includes “On Style” and (10[1])“Notes (10[1])on Camp.” (10[1])For 10 (10[1])points, name (10[1])this critical action (-5[1])that Susan Sontag wrote “against.” (10[2])■END■ (10[3]0[5])

ANSWER: interpretation [or word forms like interpreting; accept interpretive communities; accept Against Interpretation; Validity in Interpretation, The Aims of Interpretation, or “Interpreting the Variorum”]
<Editors, American Literature> | J. Playoffs 1 (Editors 1)
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