Interpretation and overinterpretation

Author(s)

• Eco, Umberto
• Collini, Stefan
• Rorty, Richard
• Culler, Jonathan D.
• Brooke-Rose, Christine

Bibliographic Information

Interpretation and overinterpretation

Umberto Eco with Richard Rorty, Jonathan Culler, Christine Brooke-Rose ; edited by Stefan Collini

Cambridge University Press, 1992

• : hbk
• : pbk

Contents of Works

• Introduction : Interpretation terminable and interminable / Stefan Collini
• Interpretation and history / Umberto Eco
• Overinterpreting texts / Umberto Eco
• 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

Description and Table of Contents

Description

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.

Table of Contents

• Introduction: Interpretation terminable and interminable Stefan Collini
• 1. Interpretation and history Umberto Eco
• 2. Overinterpreting texts Umberto Eco
• 3. Between author and text Umberto Eco
• 4. The pragmatist's progress Richard Rorty
• 5. In defence of overinterpretation Jonathan Culler
• 6. Palimpsest history Christine Brook-Rose
• 7. Reply Umberto Eco
• Index.

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Details

• NCID: BA13963052
• ISBN:
  • 0521402271
  • 0521425549
• LCCN: 91004227
• Country Code: uk
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: Cambridge ; New York
• Pages/Volumes: ix, 151 p.
• Size: 23 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : PN98.S46
  • DC20 : 801/.95
  • NDC8 : 901
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Criticism
  • LCSH : Semiotics and literature