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082 _a801.95
_bECO
100 _aUmberto Eco;
245 _aInterpretation and overinterpretation
_cUmberto Eco; Stefan Collini
260 _aNew York :
_bCambridge University Press,
_c1992.
300 _a151 pages
505 _a 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.
520 _a 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.
650 _a Criticism. Semiotics and literature. Critique.
700 _aStefan Collini
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