Interpretation and overinterpretation
Umberto Eco (Author), Richard Rorty (Author), Jonathan D. Culler (Author), Christine Brooke-Rose (Author), Stefan Collini (Editor)
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. Eco's illuminating and frequently hilarious discussion
Print Book, English, 1992
Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1992