Title: Interpretation & Overinterpretation. (Tanner Lectures in Human Values).
Publisher: Cambridge University Press., Cambridge.
Publication Date: 2008
Language: English
ISBN 10: 0521425549
ISBN 13: 9780521425544
Binding: Soft cover
Edition: 1st Edition
Printing: 1st Printing
Condition: Fine
Dimensions: 13.97 centimeters width by 21.59 centimeters height by 1.04 centimeters depth
Weight: 0.25 kilograms

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The limits of interpretation--what a text can actually be said to mean--are of double interest to a semiotician whose own novels' intriguing complexity has provoked his readers into intense speculation as to their meaning. Eco's illuminating and frequently hilarious discussion ranges from Dante to The Name of the Rose, Foucault's Pendulum, to Chomsky and Derrida, and bears all the hallmarks of his inimitable personal style. Three of the world's leading figures in philosophy, literary theory and criticism take up the challenge of entering into debate with Eco on the question of interpretation. Richard Rorty, Jonathan Culler and Christine Brooke-Rose each add a distinctive perspective on this contentious topic, contributing to a unique exchange of ideas among some of the foremost and most exciting theorists in the field.

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Umberto Eco, international best-selling novelist and leading literary theorist, here brings together these two roles in a provocative discussion of the vexed question of literary interpretation. Eco's illuminating and frequently hilarious discussion ranges from Dante to Chomsky and Derrida, and bears all the hallmarks of his inimitable personal style.

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