TY - BOOK ID - 17502963 TI - Interpretation and overinterpretation AU - Eco, Umberto AU - Rorty, Richard AU - Collini, Stefan PY - 1992 SN - 0521425549 0521402271 0511627408 9780521425544 9780511627408 9780521402279 PB - Cambridge : Cambridge university press, DB - UniCat KW - Semiotiek en literatuur KW - Semiotique et litterature KW - 82.09 KW - 82.09 Literaire kritiek KW - Literaire kritiek KW - Criticism KW - Semiotics and literature KW - Literature and semiotics KW - Literature KW - Evaluation of literature KW - Literary criticism KW - Rhetoric KW - Aesthetics KW - Technique KW - Evaluation KW - Literary semiotics KW - Theory of knowledge KW - Criticism. KW - Semiotics and literature. KW - Critique KW - Sémiotique et littérature KW - Arts and Humanities UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:17502963 AB - 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 ER -