Michael Hancher
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Item Seeing and Tagging Things in Pictures(Representations (University of California Press), 2021-08) Hancher, MichaelDespite modernist precepts, digital projects that use crowdsourcing to annotate large collections of images of paintings and book illustrations with “tags” have encouraged viewers to see things in pictures and to say what they see. Both personal image tagging (ekphrastic in function) and automatic image tagging challenge in different ways the proposition that a painting as such will elide recognizable content.Item Sermons in Stones (editorial)(Minnesota Center for Advanced Studies in Language, Style, and Literary Theory, 1974) Hancher, MichaelDiscusses a poem by Robert Frost, "A Missive Missile," as dramatizing aspects of literary interpretation.Item Re: Search and Close Reading(University of Minnesota Press, 2016) Hancher, MichaelItem The Law of Signatures(Peter Lang Publishing, Inc., 1992) Hancher, MichaelIn criticizing J. L. Austin's theory of speech acts, Jacques Derrida and Jonathan Culler have argued, in part, that Austin misunderstands how signatures function. They claim that he ignores the essentially formal and "iterable" structure of a signature -- a structure that betrays the absence of any subjective consciousness on the part of the signer. I argue that their concept of iterability does not fully apply to this case. Rather, legal practice in England and the United States countenances a wide range of variation for signatures, variation that is consistent with and legitimized by Austinian assumptions about personal agency. The fact that the legal situation is somewhat different in France may explain the structure of Derrida's argument.Item Hunt's Awakening Conscience(Journal of Pre-Raphaelite Studies, 1995) Hancher, MichaelItem Speech Acts and the Law(Georgetown University Press, 1980) Hancher, MichaelItem Grice's "Implicature" and Literary Interpretation: Background and Preface(1978) Hancher, Michael