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intentionalism
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in·ten·tion·al·ism  (n-tnsh-n-lzm)
n.
The belief or assumption that the meanings of a text are determined mainly by the stated or implied intentions of the author.

in·tention·al·ist adj. & n.

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As a distinguishable yet invisible entity, a marriage is both an intentionalist thing-reality and a luminous it-reality.
This issue, therefore, engendered still another debate, this time between intentionalists, who emphasized Hitler's racist ideology, and functionalists, who emphasized the regime's institutional dynamics and the unfolding of the war--that is, politics.
He moves beyond the narrow definitions of text and of reader that were characteristic of early reader-response criticism, arguing that "Fuller's act of interpreting the Narrative can best be understood not through a grand hermaneutic theory (whether formalist or intentionalist, phenomenological or semiotic) but by a rhetorical reception study, a historical interpretation of the cultural debates in which Fuller read Douglas.
 
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