Interpretation and overinterpretation Umberto Eco; Stefan Collini

By:

Umberto Eco

Contributor(s):

Stefan Collini

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: New York : Cambridge University Press, 1992.Description: 151 pagesISBN:

9780521425544

Subject(s):

Criticism. Semiotics and literature. Critique

DDC classification:

801.95 ECO

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.

Summary: 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. 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.

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Item type	Current library	Collection	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Books	IIITDM Kurnool General Stacks	Non-fiction	801.95 ECO (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Checked out	20.05.2024	0004698

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.

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. 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.

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