Abstract:Originally prepared for oral delivery at a conference session on the author's study of Baudelaire as a city poet, the paper explores related academic genres involving academic judgment before giving an autobiographical account of the author's reading of Baudelaire, which was mediated by the experience of the AIDS epidemic in Ronald Reagan's United States as Baudelaire's Parisian experience had been mediated by the Second Empire. Thus is suggested a theory of the ongoing readability of literary texts as that readability is mediated by the successive events of changing human history. (RC)The following essay attempts to tease out the implications of what it means to read in dialogue with others, to think of reading (and teaching) as a kind of conversational act, one involving exposure to modes, instances, and situations of difficulty, incomprehension, and "failure" that are often not only the surest sign of a text's constitutive open-ended interpretability, but also, and more importantly, of its (potential) meaningfulness for readers. Taking Rimbaud as a case study of sorts, the piece draws especially on a corpus of theoretical insights advanced by Ross Chambers—on the pragmatics of interpretation, on irony, reference and situationality, on the gap between meaning and meaningfulness—and thinks of reading a collective practice of meaning-making with, one hopes, important political and ethical implications for our times. (RSC)

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摘要：本文最初是在关于作者鲍德莱尔作为城市诗人的研究的会议上准备口头讲演的，在探讨作者对鲍德莱尔的阅读的自传体描写之前，本文探讨了涉及学术判断的相关学术体裁，这是由鲍德莱尔（Baudelaire）在巴黎的经历曾在第二帝国的主持下在罗纳德·里根（Ronald Reagan）的美国流行。因此提出了一种文学文本的持续可读性的理论，因为可读性是由人类历史不断变化的连续事件所介导的。（RC）以下文章试图弄清与他人对话时阅读的含义，将阅读（和教学）视为一种对话行为，其中包括接触模式，实例，困难，不理解和“失败”的情况通常不仅是文本构成性开放式可解释性的最可靠标志，而且，而且（更重要的是）其对读者的（潜在）意义。以林波（Rimbaud）为例，该文章特别借鉴了罗斯·钱伯斯（Ross Chambers）提出的一系列理论见解-解释的语用学，反讽，指涉和情境，意义与意义之间的鸿沟-并考虑阅读一种具有希望的集体实践，对我们时代具有重要的政治和伦理意义。（RSC）对读者的（潜在）意义。以林波（Rimbaud）为例，该文章特别借鉴了罗斯·钱伯斯（Ross Chambers）提出的一系列理论见解-解释的语用学，反讽，指涉和情境，意义与意义之间的鸿沟-并考虑阅读一种具有希望的集体实践，对我们时代具有重要的政治和伦理意义。（RSC）对读者的（潜在）意义。以林波（Rimbaud）为例，该文章特别借鉴了罗斯·钱伯斯（Ross Chambers）提出的一系列理论见解-解释的语用学，反讽，指涉和情境，意义与意义之间的鸿沟-并考虑阅读一种具有希望的集体实践，对我们时代具有重要的政治和伦理意义。（RSC）