ABSTRACT
The interpretation aims ultimately to facilitate appreciation in all the arts and that this is the key to its proper characterization. Furthermore, grasping what is common to interpretation across the several arts will correct some misconceptions and resolve some disputes regarding literary criticism specifically. It links evaluatively neutral properties that can be described without being interpreted to aesthetically evaluative properties such as grace, beauty, and power. The two principles, first proposed by David Lewis have been widely considered. One has us fill out what is explicitly stated in a fictional text with truths from our real world. Roughly, what is true in the world of the fiction is what is true in the closest possible world to the readerin which the story is told as known fact. The second principle fills out fictional worlds to be consistent not with the real world but with what their authors and intended audiences believed.
