Interpretation and overinterpretation / Umberto Eco [et al.] ; edited by Stefan Collini

Eco, Umberto

ISBN 10: 0521425549 / ISBN 13: 9780521425544

Published by Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 1992

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Near fine paperback copy; edges very slightly dulled. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Physical description; ix, 151 pages. Contents; Introduction : interpretation terminable and interminable / Stefan Collini -- Interpretation and history ; Overinterpreting texts ; Between author and text / Umberto Eco -- The pragmatist's progress / Richard Rorty -- In defence of overinterpretation / Jonathan Culler -- Palimpsest history / Christine Brooke-Rose -- Reply / Umberto Eco. Subjects; Eco, Umberto Criticism and interpretation. Criticism. Semiotics and literature. Semiotics In literary criticism. Hermeneutics. Literary theory. Literature. Semiotics. Literary interpretive theory. Experience (Religion). Religion and civilization. Critique. 1 Kg.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Interpretation and overinterpretation / Umberto Eco [et al.] ; edited by Stefan Collini
• Publisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
• Publication Date: 1992
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0521425549
• ISBN 13: 9780521425544
• Binding: Soft cover
• Edition: 1st edition.
• Weight: 1 kilogram

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Synopsis

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.