TY - BOOK AU - Umberto Eco; AU - Stefan Collini TI - Interpretation and overinterpretation SN - 9780521425544 U1 - 801.95 PY - 1992/// CY - New York : PB - Cambridge University Press, KW - Criticism. Semiotics and literature. Critique N1 - 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 N2 - 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 ER -