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  Interpretation and Overinterpretation (Tanner Lectures in Human Values) (Paperback) By (author) Umberto Eco, Edited by Stefan Collini, Contributions by Jonathan Culler, Contributions by Richard Rorty, Contributions by Christine Brooke-Rose

  

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  Short Description for Interpretation and OverinterpretationThis book brings together some of the most distinguished figures currently at work in philosophy, literary theory and criticism to debate the limits of interpretation.
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  • Publisher: CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS
  • Published: 05 March 1992
  • Format: Paperback 164 pages
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  • Categories: Literary Theory | Literary Studies: From C 1900 - | Literary Studies: Fiction, Novelists & Prose Writers | Literary Reference Works
  • ISBN 13: 9780521425544 ISBN 10: 0521425549
  • Sales rank: 744,632

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• Umberto Eco, international bestselling 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 ranges from Dante to The Name of the Rose, Foucault's Pendulum to Chomsky and Derrida, and bears all the hallmarks of his inimitable personal style. Three of the world's leading figures in philosophy, literary theory and criticism take up the challenge of entering into debate with Eco on the question of interpretation. Richard Rorty, Jonathan Culler and Christine Brooke-Rose each offer a distinctive perspective on this contentious topic, contributing to a unique exchange of ideas between some of the foremost and most exciting theorists in the field.