Interpretation and overinterpretation
Umberto Eco;
Interpretation and overinterpretation Umberto Eco; Stefan Collini - New York : Cambridge University Press, 1992. - 151 pages
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.
9780521425544
Criticism. Semiotics and literature. Critique.
801.95 / ECO
Interpretation and overinterpretation Umberto Eco; Stefan Collini - New York : Cambridge University Press, 1992. - 151 pages
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.
9780521425544
Criticism. Semiotics and literature. Critique.
801.95 / ECO