Secrets in the Open: An Exercise in Interpretive Writing

In this paper I present an exemplar of interpretive writing based on my engagement with the movie, My Life as a Dog. The film is a series of vignettes about Ingemar, a young boy, who is processing the events which arise from the difficulties wrought by his mother’s illness. This is not the typical...

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Autor principal:	Galicia Solon Blackman
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Publicado:	University of Calgary 2016
Materias:	secrets hermeneutic circle childhood interpretive writing Philosophy (General) B1-5802
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spelling	oai:doaj.org-article:035d3571e1804555b15f402d3aec1b472021-11-25T21:24:55ZSecrets in the Open: An Exercise in Interpretive Writing10.11575/jah.v0i0.532891927-4416https://doaj.org/article/035d3571e1804555b15f402d3aec1b472016-07-01T00:00:00Zhttps://journalhosting.ucalgary.ca/index.php/jah/article/view/53289https://doaj.org/toc/1927-4416 In this paper I present an exemplar of interpretive writing based on my engagement with the movie, My Life as a Dog. The film is a series of vignettes about Ingemar, a young boy, who is processing the events which arise from the difficulties wrought by his mother’s illness. This is not the typical coming of age film where the child becomes an adult through the initiation into life’s painful circumstances. The film ends with the character still in his boyhood. Nevertheless, the intermittent voice-over conveys the impression that Ingemar is narrating in retrospect, in a build up to his emergence from a state of innocence to awareness, and acceptance of pain and loss. I attended to the principles of hermeneutic practice outlined by several scholars to frame my understanding of what it means to enter the hermeneutic circle to explore the topic which addressed me: Secrecy. Galicia Solon BlackmanUniversity of Calgaryarticlesecretshermeneutic circlechildhoodinterpretive writingPhilosophy (General)B1-5802ENJournal of Applied Hermeneutics (2016)
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description	In this paper I present an exemplar of interpretive writing based on my engagement with the movie, My Life as a Dog. The film is a series of vignettes about Ingemar, a young boy, who is processing the events which arise from the difficulties wrought by his mother’s illness. This is not the typical coming of age film where the child becomes an adult through the initiation into life’s painful circumstances. The film ends with the character still in his boyhood. Nevertheless, the intermittent voice-over conveys the impression that Ingemar is narrating in retrospect, in a build up to his emergence from a state of innocence to awareness, and acceptance of pain and loss. I attended to the principles of hermeneutic practice outlined by several scholars to frame my understanding of what it means to enter the hermeneutic circle to explore the topic which addressed me: Secrecy.
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Secrets in the Open: An Exercise in Interpretive Writing

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